Category: Thoughts
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You Are What You Eat
We’ve all heard the saying “you are what you eat” before. There’s a lot of truth to this statement. In general, healthy eating habits lead to a healthy body and unhealthy eating habits lead to an unhealthy body. Did you know the same is true for your mind though? Your mind becomes what you feed…
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Who Really Loses?
I read an article today talking about the recent debate going on in Washington about the extension of the “Bush Tax Cuts”. Some are saying that Obama has sided with the GOP in regards to extending all of the tax cuts instead of just the tax cuts for those making under $250,000 per year. I…
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It’s A Beautiful Day
I’ve been reading See You at the Top by Zig Ziglar. It’s an awesome motivational book and I highly recommend it. He’s an excellent story teller and uses it to help drive home the lessons. I’ll definitely be reading this book again. There’s far too much information to absorb in a single reading. One of…
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To Thine Own Self Be True
How well do you know yourself? This is an honest question. I’m really not trying to be facetious. I’m coming to realize that this is a key component of success in life. Far too many people have not taken a serious look at who they are and what they believe. They just move with the…
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What’s Your Calling
There is such a misunderstanding these days regarding a person’s ‘calling’. For some reason we have gotten the impression that ‘calling’ is a word that only applies to preachers and missionaries. This is such a tragedy. God did not call everyone to full time ministry or even service within the church. Does that mean that…
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It’s a Self-Centered Life
My family and I were taking a walk down a nice new path that they made next to a “bypass” from the southern to the eastern side of our little town. It’s only been open for a month or so. There’s still straw in all of the ditches not grass. What really struck me is…
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My Kind of People
I just got back from a three day seminar on how to build a speaking business. It covered everything from discovering your own personal passions to creating products to augment your topics. The best part of the whole event though was the people. Ever since I started down this path of self-employment, I’ve discovered that…
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Creating a Brand New Church
Shannon O’Dell’s Transforming Church in Rural America is a must read for anyone in church leadership. This book chronicles the successes and failures of the author as he moved from a mega-church to a rural church with an attendance of less than 50. He lays out the key strategies that he used to grow this…
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All In or Just In the Trial Period?
I’m listening to Lifehouse’s newest album Smoke & Mirrors right now. The title of one of the songs is “All In”. The key line is “I’m all in for life”. Are you all in for life? I can make so many parallels to this. In your marriage, are you all in for life? Are you committed…
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Soothing the Savage Beast
I love music. I always have. I’m not musically talented really. I just enjoy listening to it. I did play trombone in high school and have dabbled in guitar and piano, but that’s about it. I like just about any genre of music. The one thing it has to have though is meaning. I don’t…