Tag: Faith
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The Delightful Danger of Distraction
When I was a boy, I spent two weeks every summer on my grandparents southwest Oklahoma farm. It was 160 acres of cotton fields, mesquite trees and sand. There was also a large garden, a tree house and a coop full of chickens. A favorite night time activity of my cousins and mine was to…
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Is the Sky Really Falling?
In the early 1990’s, social psychologist Roy Baumeister began exploring the negativity bias–the widely accepted belief that bad has a stronger impact on people than good. His team conducted extensive research, hoping to find situations where a single positive circumstance was actually stronger than a negative one. They couldn’t find any. In fact, Baumeister and…
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God Doesn’t Make Junk
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 Many people considered famous today were once oddballs who refused to do their art the established way. The painter Jackson Pollock laid a humongous canvas on the floor of his barn…
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The Ultimate Mentor
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John 3:17 NIV) I got my first life coach when I was fourteen years old. Orville Lambert was a 70 something year old deacon at my church who willingly volunteered to teach a bunch…
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God Knows
There is a way which seems right to a man, but it’s end is the way of death. (Proverbs 16:25) Marie Curie was a highly acclaimed physicist and chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first woman to win a Nobel prize, she is famous for developing and proving the theory of…
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Peace that Isn’t Pitiful
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you I do not give as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John 14:27 Have you ever attempted to bring peace to a difficult situation and failed? This happened to me once with a room full…
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