i have been thinking about my “Take Aways” from last Saturdays Onething Life. A ‘Take Away” is the practical application of a message or a word that is shared during our new Onething Life gatherings. On Saturday we heard a word from Andy Stanley on being in community and that it is vital to my [...]
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This poem also came up under my search for information and it to captured my attention enough to use it today to share my thoughts in this post. While the title is Affliction i have chosen to rename it And Much More Thee. George can’t say a whole lot about it, but i think he would allow [...]
While searching for some information for posting there was a title that caught my attention. “Failure-Tolerant Leader,” by Richard Farson and Ralph Keye. The article begins with a quote from IBM’s Thomas Watson, Sr.: “the fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate.” Failure is a prerequisite of invention, which requires risk taking. Failure provides insights [...]
It’s been ten days since my fingers, thoughts and spirit all came to the keyboard on my laptop. It was not for lack of thoughts but time was allowed to slip away on a very large project. This weekend Ann Marie and i did nothing on Sunday except watch a couple of movies and attempted [...]
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Henry Ellis 2 Peter 1:2-13 12 So I intend always to remind you about these things, although indeed you know them and are firm in the truth that [you] now [hold]. 13 I think it right, as long as [...]
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, Skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. David Starr Jordan Virtue is doing it. Virtue: moral excellence, goodness, righteousness, conformity of one’s life and conduct to moral and ethical principles, an order of angels. But if i lack the will? i have pondered and shared these words, [...]
Matthew 17:20 He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith [that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will [...]
Nehemiah 9:19 You in Your great mercy forsook them not in the wilderness; the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night to light the way they should go. This verse serves as a great reminder of God’s mercy, grace [...]
Isaiah 55: 1-5 1WAIT and listen, everyone who is thirsty! Come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Yes, come, buy [priceless, spiritual] wine and milk without money and without price [simply for the self-surrender that accepts the blessing]. 2Why do you spend your money for that which is not [...]
James 1:22 But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth]. This verse is quite capable of standing on it’s own and it would be hard to take it out of context. The people heard the word, and they believed it, [...]
