Dealing With The Downside

Your manager is looking for you to complete the project before next Friday.  Your team is behind.  You know you have a choice.  You can either choose to take the hit now or next Friday.  You think through the alternatives.  On the one hand, there are compromises you could make to deliver something workable even

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Memory Conversion

There is a difference between a memory and a photograph. A photograph is simply evidence of times gone by, a memory is a dynamic and malleable thing which grows and changes as your continuing and current experience causes you to revisit, reinterpret, relive, and reevaluate the moments stored for future reference in your memory. There

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Which is Easier to Believe?

Which is easier to believe? There was a man.  Now whether this man was a good man or a bad man we do not know.  What we do know is that his body had stopped responding to his brain in a healthy fashion and so he was paralyzed.  Maybe it was ALS.  Maybe it was

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Ready For Anything

Get ready.  God is about to do something big. “Yeah…right…about that…” Have you gotten to a place where it seems hard to believe?  Are you ready for someone else to do something for you for a change?  Does it seem like the ancient Greek saying so often attributed to Ben Franklin is the moral of

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Living With Expectancy

You should be living your life with expectancy.  “Yeah, right.  Nothing seems to be working out for me right now.  Why should I expect it to get better?” Expectations are central to your ability to handle a wide variety of situations.  Expectations set by past experience, education, insight, wisdom, perception, intuition, understanding, and more are

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The Truth About Lies

Don’t believe everything you think.   The battle between good and evil is often lost in the simple act of allowing an unconsidered conclusion to govern your approach to a situation instead of focusing your attention on discovering God’s direction, intention, or will for your life in that moment and persisting in accomplishing it even

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Actual Mistakes

It’s one thing to be forgiven when it wasn’t actually your fault.  It’s something else entirely when you have actually caused a problem, felt the impact, and then discovered grace. “Your sins are forgiven.”- Luke 7 (NLT) The most revolutionary idea that Jesus introduced to the world during His time in Galilee was that actual

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Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

For many years trash was just trash.  Some of the richest archeological finds have been discovered while digging through the garbage heaps of earlier civilizations.  Imagine, then, what the seas of refuse that our civilization generates will tell future generations about the world as it exists today. According to the EPA, in 2011 the United

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Getting a Handle on Life

It’s time to get a handle on the opposition.   Whether you are facing an addiction, a problem at work, trouble in a relationship, an issue with your health, a bad habit, unhealthy choices, or destructive behaviors.  Whatever the enemy is throwing against you today, it’s time to find the handle on that baggage and

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