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Epiphany
I had to watch Pastor Bil’s lastest sermon online because I woke up 5/18 sick like I was hit by a freight train. The last two months have been his best sermons ever. Imagine — a pastor talking, preaching on Vision & Leadership?!!! This is so awesome. Not to be a gushing, blushing teenager here, [...]
Hoping for Something Bad to Happen
Until recently — really recently — I kept hoping bad things would happen to me so I could get drunk. I am a binge drinker, which is a nuanced difference from being an alcoholic. Fundamentally, though, I can’t enjoy a beer with dinner. I want them all, however many are in my fridge. I responded [...]
Borrowing a Favor
I’m reading the two year bible. That’s the One Year Bible read over two years. Last year I read each day’s New Testament and Psalm & Proverb. This year I’m focusing on each day’s Old Testament reading. I’ve read the bible through several times now, and I wanted to spend more time in each passage. [...]
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One of my mother’s cousins won a lottery in Montana a couple of days ago. He won $1,000,000. That’s a lot of money, but not really the “big” money by today’s standards. My mom emailed me, my brother, her sisters and their kids with the news and one of my aunts replied with a very [...]
WHO are we following, again?
In this morning’s Bible study we ended up discussing church size and following our leaders. Later in the day I heard someone on the radio say that you can tell a leader by looking behind him. Does he have any followers? By this definition, Christ was and is quite a leader. In a smaller way, [...]
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