Soul Care
Ready For A Nervous BreakThrough?!
Ready For A Nervous BreakThrough?! A good friend of mine recently related to me how God has been on the move in his life. It was a little difficult to figure out if he was going through good stuff or bad. Creative ideas were hitting him in the middle of the night so he was…
Read MoreFatherless on Father’s Day
Loneliness is perhaps the most intense of human emotions. This single word might well explain much that is behind the challenges of cultures across the world today. overeating (compulsive eating cures most voids, right?) website popularity (the most visited websites have one thing in common – in the words of Grace Slick, ‘Don’t you need…
Read MoreValentines Lessons: Finally I’m Learning To Love People
Valentine’s Day – the universal celebration of love. Anyone keen on walking in, learning about, and speaking the fluent language of love will be electrified this day. Get excited – spread some around. You aren’t the source of it so take a risk here and love like there’s no tomorrow! (I can tell you from…
Read More‘Innovation’ – Or Can We Do Better? (Part 4)
4. We cannot violate who we really are. People can see who we are. We cannot hide our stripes. Oddly, the longest term ones present are the only people who have convinced themselves that something “innovative” is going on. As old-timers, we can try so hard to reinvent ourselves, we nearly hypnotize ourselves into believing…
Read MoreAgreeing with Jesus
Leaders – how do we stay in sync with the life of the Spirit so we continue to love, live, flow with the care of God for the not-yet-believers around us? – Not just because it is the right thing to do – But because that devotion is the center of the heart of Jesus?…
Read MoreOutreach for Introverts
For introverts, the notion of outreach can seem not just difficult but fully impossible to pull off, at least as many understand the notion of outreach. As an outreach introvert myself, I have noted a few pointers in which we can find encouragement. I’m not the world’s most effective introverted evangelist certainly, but I have…
Read MoreImperative People: The Conversational Steamrollers
Ever met someone who’s nice enough, but only if you catch them at just the right moment? Welcome to the world of “Imperative People” – the Barney Fifes of our daily lives. If you’re scratching your head wondering who Barney Fife is, treat yourself to some Andy Griffith Show reruns. Trust me, you’ll get it.…
Read MoreThe Bird
Most of the people in the Tampa Bay Area are not from here – much like Denver, or Los Angeles or Las Vegas. To clear up a misunderstanding, there are very few elderly-retirees living in the Tampa area. This is not a “snowbird” area. Those who do own condos in the Clearwater area (just across…
Read MoreLuther’s Prayer Lesson #2
Prayer is many things – quiet, still for many isn’t a great description. Let’s be short here. There is nothing more goofy, misleading, and typically American than for us to tell one another what “normal” is in terms of something as personal as prayer. The very idea of saying “Quiet Time” = thus and such……
Read MoreSyncing With The Spirit
When I hook up my iPhone or my iPod with my laptop all that is new is caught up. I make deposits in the Spirit as I listen to Jesus’ voice each day throughout. For me, I don’t do the “Quiet Time” thing. I really dislike the notion that someone else is going to “help”…
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