Steve's Writings
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The Starbucks “Pay It Backwards” story is an echo of what has taken place with SE stuff for fifteen-twenty years. It is encouraging and scary at the same time. It is essential that we explain WHY we are doing what we do to show God’s love. To be nice to people for niceness sake does…
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This has been a stellar week for me. My birthday was on Tuesday. I’m old but not that old. My son Jack thinks I’m old because I’m older than 21. I think I am younger than a lot of much younger people because I engage in playful activity a LOT. “When you stop playing you…
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“Outflow” is the word I used in a recent book to describe the attitude we live in when we are noticing our way into the lives of others. All who have been created in the image of God (that’s all of us reading this!) have been molded with the notion of “Normal” being us noticing…
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Jesus, What’s up with the harvest? Signed, Steve (and friends) PS. This routine of not seeing much is getting tiring… Like all elementary school teachers. I intercepted my share of notes passed during class times. Here is a question worth pondering: If you could slip Jesus a one-line note what would yours read? Mine would…
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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…
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I’m making a New Year’s resolution… now that it’s late May. I caught onto the futility of the resolution thing a long time ago and stopped doing them. Such things are useless in my mind (no offense unless the shoe fits…) To do so is akin to “And this year I’m going to push a…
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Begin with Those in Need Though we didn’t have any organized training, had never been coached or mentored, or even read a book about reaching out to those in need, we did have one thing going for us. We were more eager to do something that be would connect with people than we were worried…
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Everybody Needs a Model Or Two To Be Effective ‘People never do what you say – only what you do …then only after you have salted them down…’ What/Who Is An Approximate Leader Metaphor You Relate To? As we venture through life, influential personalities pass our way. Some of these are distant influencers. They touch…
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Have you noticed that on every cover of Oprah’s magazine she is smiling? Think about what you want, but I believe her smile is sincere. She does nothing for financial gain—that point in her life passed long ago. For Oprah, it’s about spiritual meaning. Measuring America’s Spiritual Hunger If spiritual health is measured according to…
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Short People Got No… Need For Toilet Plungers … of strengths, limits, liabilities While in Denver recently doing some city-wide training with leaders, I stayed with some friends. They have renovated a house that is beautiful, ornate… and has old plumbing. This couple has children that are adults, are out of the house. Both of…