Tag: Loving Others
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Something New
(2-minute read) I’ve been trying to study to understand the crowd’s beliefs as Jesus spoke. Often, he put together what they already knew in a simple way that gave them a greater understanding. But he also taught something they found fresh and new. He spoke of the Kingdom of God. Jesus spoke to crowds about…
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Obedience
(3-minute read) I asked God, “Lord, how much obedience do you want?” It took a while, but when the answer came, it was more involved than just complete, absolute, and total. When I was a kid, my father expected obedience. In his case, it was complete, absolute, and total obedience. But it only covered what…
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Permission to be Wonderful
(4-minute read) When I was in high school, my parents got a call from the school wanting to see them. They insisted that my mother and father attend the meeting and that I should not attend. I took that as a bad sign. When my parents returned home, my father came to my room and…
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Slacks
(3-minute read) “How do I look?” My father looked up from his newspaper to see my mother dressed in pants (trousers if you live in the UK). It was the late 1950s and the first time I saw my mother in a pair of pants; she always wore a dress. My father smiled and said,…
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Core Issue of Life
(3-minute read) I was eight years old and in 3rd grade when I began getting my education in the core issue of life. Her name was Ginger Humphrey, and she was wonderful. Everything about her was perfect. I was raised with four brothers, and all my friends were boys. I knew almost nothing about girls.…
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Complicated
(4-minute read) In 1981, I was offered a promotion to manage a group of specialists. I turned the job down after they told me all the men had an IQ above 150. I didn’t think I would be smart enough to manage a group like that. After a couple of weeks, a manager, several levels…
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Every Life is Broken
If you live long enough, every life is broken. The life you planned, dreamed about, and worked for is suddenly no longer available. You might lose the job, discover you’re not as talented as you thought, have sudden financial problems, lose someone you love, or 1000 other things. The events are often entirely beyond our…
Walking the path 