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Did you know that if you’ve been burning the candle at both ends, simply going somewhere to STOP burning doesn’t replace what has been lost? It doesn’t re-lengthen the candle. Only goin to the Candle Maker and submitting to His hands will allow Him to remold, reshape, re-lengthen, and replace those ends. Go to the Candle Maker. He . . . → Read More: Burning The Candle At Both Ends Remember Monkey Bars when you were a kid? How about those rings on chains? And those igloo-shaped bar cages you could crawl all over? The Bible says walk by faith and not by sight. It says nobody should build something unless they count the cost, otherwise they could get half-way done and get stalled. Yeah, that’ll look . . . → Read More: How Far Can You Reach? Clever post title…I know. Well, okay, maybe not that clever. We just got home from a week-long conference last night — or as Christopher reminded us with, “Good Morning,” it was after midnight this morning. We’ve been to a lot of conferences in our life together. Karen and I were in Amway years and years ago, and . . . → Read More: How To Tell A Conference I’m not going to dress up a pretty post and end it with Selah so that it sounds poetic and makes you think. I hate that stuff when I read something thinking, “This isn’t very good,” and on top of that at the end they put a nice little bow on it to make it tidy. . . . → Read More: Selah – It Means Stop And Think A Moment The good and bad news is that we’re getting over 90 comment posts every single day, but it looks like almost all of them are spam. The personal notes many of you have been sending me are great, and I hope you keep it up. But it’s taking me forever to weed through the spam so . . . → Read More: Too Much Spam Notice When I watch reality shows, when I listen to commentators, or when I see people interact, I wonder how much of it is scripted and how much of it comes from the heart. By the way, just because it’s scripted doesn’t mean it’s not from the heart, but usually…. So if you stumble across this blog and . . . → Read More: I Wonder How Much Of This Is Real? Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life. What a cliche, huh? Look at it from the point of view of a person who just won the bazillion dollar lottery, married the sweetest high school sweetheart in the world, and found out that wild idea to help regular cars get a hundred miles per . . . → Read More: …Of The Rest Of Your Life Well, maybe exactly a day over 44. Yesterday was my 45th. Promise gave me a new backyard propane barbecue, then a surprise birthday barbecue at one of our member’s houses. Well, Karen lined all that up. What a wife! And I got about a hundred Happy Birthday’s online. Fun, huh? I just had a flashback to Billy . . . → Read More: I Don’t Feel A Day Older Than 44 That almost sounds like a dumb question, huh? Does having kids change anything? Duh!! Another mouth to feed. Diapers. Sleepless nights. Fevers. Bumps and bruises and scratches and you name its…. Years ago I worked for Transamerica; you know: the pyramid tower in San Francisco. But I worked here in SoCal. They had their corporate office in . . . → Read More: Will Having Kids Really Change Anything? In life I have to work like it’s up to me, and pray like it’s up to God. Both are true in ANY area of life, huh? As a pastor I have the responsibility of leading a flock. It doesn’t matter if it’s 40 or 40,000, the rules are still the same. Namely: No matter how . . . → Read More: Work, Pray, Work, Pray, Listen, Obey, Listen, Obey |
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