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The weight of my financial burdens is threatening to crush me once again. All of my simple trust that “things will work out” and that my Father loves me have become dim and blurred by the passing of due dates and the nearly empty bank account (and the shortage of forseen income). And all of…

While discussing my recent post on Focus with my wife, we found ourselves discussing the importance of worship. Expressing your heart through music to God. (That is our most common understanding of “worship” these days, I’d say.) We mentioned how meaningful that has been for us at times, and just fun, too! God made music…

Christian Denomination Selector This is too funny. Had to put it up here. Thanks Chris! (it said I was Seventh Day Adventist, by the way… followed by Assemblies of God and then Church of Christ. Go figure.)

I touched on the idea of a misplaced focus a couple of posts ago… I was then speaking of the emphasis we place on reaching the masses. The attempt to reach as many as possible as efficiently as possible, and thus the large group settings. Well, another side of the focus coin became apparent to…

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I heard on the news last night that Cookie Monster, the blue cookie-eating furry guy from Sesame Street – a piece of my childhood… is “changing his tune”. Now, instead of singing, “C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me…”, revealing his deep love for cookies, as his name suggests, he will be singing,…

Do you ever notice how scary God is, especially in the old testament? Any revealing of himself was at least scary, or sometimes even deadly for the recipient. This causes people to do funny things. Being in the presence of something so fearsome makes you feel small and worthless and fear your existence will simply…