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People aren’t like animals, we are a separate class. Sure there are similarities, but when it comes to intrinsic value there is no comparison. The lowest of low humans has more value than your most loyal dog. Stop and rest on that thought for a moment. Your worst enemy is more valuable than your dog. Do you really believe that? If [...]

Just because something is NEW doesn’t mean it’s better. Just because something is ‘working’ for everyone else doesn’t mean it will work for you. The newest, latest, and greatest often has more to do with status than actual productivity. What works for you is what you should be using. THE TAKE AWAY: Bosses let your employees use [...]

There are many reasons that failing sucks. Mostly the fear of it becoming public. There is a huge blessing to failing, you get to learn from it.

You may not be like me, but I am an expert… at making mistakes. I have fully and freely engaged in making many of them, so much so that I start to ask the same questions when I do. And when I say mistake I mean a mistake, not a sin, not I did something [...]

For me I could likely talk only to pause for drink and food for 5 hours. As an extravert I could carry on a conversation for at least twice as long. My point is that it is robbing nothing of me to put me on a stage or in a pulpit I have always naturally [...]

Technology has done anything but make life simple. Sure we can communicate important information faster, but there seems to be so much useless information that gets flung my way at an ever increasing speed. However I don’t think the problem is the medium. The problem is us. Think about it. Computers don’t do anything on [...]

Just to clarify my spam policy, if the point of your comment is to sell something, it is SPAM. Thank you, that is all.

There should be a constant weight on the leadership of a church to clearly communicates the Gospel of Jesus in a way that everyone can understand the message even if their response is rejecting it as true. The leadership must consider, although not with equal weight, these forces and factors: * Members (& at many [...]

We are called to correct people, when we don’t we aren’t saying ‘I love you’, we’re saying ‘I don’t love you enough to let you know.’ 1. Scripture clearly demands it. There is no getting around it. Jesus himself requires it in Matt 18. 2. It prevents miss communication. 3. It makes us check our [...]

I recently left my pulpit with the calling from God for this next season to be a faithful member of a local congregation. My wife and I set out on a journey of finding a local church to join. While this is a very personal and very subjective subject. I think we did some things [...]