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7/1/2022 0 Comments

Inability to See

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John 8:25-27—“Who are You?” they questioned. “Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them. I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Me is true, and what I have heard from Him—these things I tell the world.” They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.

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2/10/2022 0 Comments

The Bad Leader

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We have all experienced them—leaders, who exhibit selfishness in the midst of a crisis. One of the reasons why I believe the Bible is the greatest book on leadership is the plethora of examples of good and bad leaders.  So let’s look at a man who shows us what not to do.  ​

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12/31/2021 0 Comments

Finding Stasis

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Daniel 5:26-28--This is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end. TEKEL means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

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3/14/2021 0 Comments

Separated Ones

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​A group of people determined to separate themselves in the pursuit of holiness.  They gave themselves a name—Perushim, which means separated ones. Over time as they concentrated on holy living, they became proud and self-righteous. On the outside they looked great but on the inside they rotted.[1]

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9/30/2020 0 Comments

The Return

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​Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, “It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” On April 30, 1863, Lincoln's National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer was observed.  Two days later, Lt. General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was mortally wounded in a freak accident where he was shot by his own troops.  The loss of this powerful Confederate leader changed the course of the war.[1]

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7/18/2020 1 Comment

Self-Dependent

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Isaiah 22:10,11--You counted the houses of Jerusalem so that you could tear them down to fortify the wall.  You made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider the One who created it long ago.

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12/10/2019 0 Comments

Isolated and Insecure

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Proverbs 18:1—One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

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6/7/2019 0 Comments

Hail

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Hail is mentioned 36 times in the Bible.  The majority (16x) are recorded in the book of Exodus.  Thirty-one times hail is used as an instrument of God’s anger and judgment.  We see this particularly evident when God devastated Egypt with hail as one of the ten plagues to force Pharaoh to release the Israelites from captivity.  Forty some years later, God used hail to wipe out the armies of five Amorite kings who attacked Israel.

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9/18/2018 0 Comments

Power of the Word

John George graduated into heaven recently.  He was a man for whom I will eternally be grateful.  At a time when I was a cocky senior at West Point, he accurately confronted me about pride and forever changed my life.  John knew that the Bible warns us in Proverbs 16:18 that “Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.”  His exhortation scared me to death that God would not use me for His kingdom.  

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12/13/2017 0 Comments

Pray Like This: And Do Not Lead Us Into Temptation

​I’m convinced that prayerlessness is a major factor when I give into temptation.  If I’m tempted and I run to the Lord in prayer immediately my will is altered and I’m fortified to do what I know I ought to do.  When I neglect seeking His help every fiendish aspect of rationalization works to my detriment.  But even in praying for God’s help to resist evil there is a responsibility on my part to be committed to God’s truth and will.  Jerry Bridges notes in The Discipline of Grace, “There’s no point in praying for God’s help in the face of temptation if we haven’t made a commitment to obedience without exception.”  

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5/6/2017

Arrogance

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James 4:13-17--Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.” You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes. Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”  But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn’t do it.
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2/8/2016 0 Comments

If You See the Donkey

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Exodus 23:5—If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.
 
If I see that my enemy, Joe, is in trouble, my natural reaction is to think, “He is getting what he deserves for his poor behavior and attitude!” and to walk past him without providing assistance.  Basically Joe’s misfortune is deserved because of past, poor behavior and I should not interfere with his karma.[1]  



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12/17/2015 0 Comments

Vladimir--The Atrocious Leader

General Vladimir Sukhomlinov was the Russian Minister of War from 1909-1915. He was a cavalry officer and a war hero during Russia’s war with Turkey in the 1870s.  Unfortunately, Sukhomlinov decided that he knew everything that there was to know about warfare.  His decorations, record and position bolstered his self-importance despite the fact that Russia lost territory and huge numbers of dead and wounded to the Japanese from 1904-1905.  

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11/6/2015

Rage

​Michael "Mikey" Weinstein allegesthat while a cadet at the Air Force Academy (AFA) he was psychologically harassed, faced anti-Semitic slurs, death threats, and “two incidents of hazing where he was ambushed, beaten, and in one case hospitalized.”[1]  Both of his sons who also attended the AFA, also experienced Christian proselytizing and derogatory statements directed at their Jewish heritage.  Weinstein decided that the best approach to eliminating anti-Semitism and Christian proselytizing was to launch the Military Religious Freedom Foundation(MRFF),“formed as a watchdog organization to protect religious freedom in the military in accordance with Department of Defense Directive 1300.17, Accommodation of Religious Practices Within the Military Services.” MRFF was nominated on five occasions for the Nobel Peace Prize. 


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5/3/2014 0 Comments

A Gentle Answer

​You could hear them screaming at each other five offices away.  Heads poked out to see what was going on—I was afraid words would escalate to blows, but fortunately that did not happen.   Don looked like he was going to have a heart attack, his face was beet red and he was shaking.  Rich’s jaw was clenched and his palms rolled into fists but with three of us coaxing we managed to get them separated and back into their own offices.

​​I asked Rich what happened.  He said he went into Don’s office to ask how Allie was doing on the project she was working with him.  Don told him she was worthless and to get out of his office, he was sick of taking Rich’s broken employees and felt like Rich deliberately was out to make his life miserable.  Rich said the way Don spoke penetrated his brain and hit his anger button.  He knew Allie had her weak areas but he was proud of her hard work and resented Don’s judgmental attitude.  Furthermore he didn’t appreciate the way the older manager always blamed people instead of trying to get along.  So instead of finding a response to deescalate the tension, he spoke the first thought that raced across his brain, “Don you are a loser and I’m sick of trying to help you.”  Those words brought Don out of his chair and began a two-minute shouting match.

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8/7/2013

Gospel of Accommodation

​Imagine if a few influential leaders suggested that traffic lights are too restrictive.  They offend a percentage of drivers who feel trapped and forced to conform to other motorists.  Three-way lights are insensitive to the needs of the color blind and old fashioned.  Either do away with them or give each driver leeway to determine whether to brake or accelerate.  Of course, if this really happened there would be an outcry by safety-minded drivers for the ruckus and accidents that would ensue. 

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5/15/2013 0 Comments

Behind Your Back

​Robert Lawless was born February 10, 1949 in Wheatland, Wyoming.  His parents abandoned him when he was six months old along with his 18 month-old sister and 3 year-old brother.  They were left in an apartment alone for two weeks and near death when Child Services found them.  After spending several weeks in a hospital a Nebraska family named Lawless adopted Bob and his brother.  He would never see his sister again.  His new parents moved them to Salem, Oregon and then they divorced.   At the age of fourteen, Bob went to live with an aunt and uncle.  As a teenager his life was full of wildness, jail time and repeated failures.  

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4/5/2013 0 Comments

Help Me Understand . . .

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Job 6:24—Teach me, and I will be silent.  Help me understand what I did wrong.
 
As the manager of a midsize division, Lu was responsible for millions of dollars of merchandise and about a hundred employees. The CEO was impressed by her tenacity and creative mind in fixing problems.  The board saw her as a rising star so almost everyone was shocked when she resigned.  She gave her new boss Calvin virtually no advance notice of her intentions and left at a time of major restructuring. Lu had accepted the offer of a smaller division within the same company but located in another state.  She felt the job, though less prestigious, was a better fit for her skill set and it was much closer to her family.  

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7/6/2012 0 Comments

Grounded

Across the parade field spanning more than the length of a football field, flags of every unit fluttered in the breeze. Though the July temperature was chilly, the sun broke through as if to announce this was a joyous occasion. Soldiers moved in unison to snappish bugle commands. The crisp roar of measured cannon fire honored the presence of I-Corps' three-star commander. When the band played it was not hard to sit up straighter and admire the formations of men and women sworn to defend their nation's Constitution.

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3/12/2012

Down to Hades

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Luke 10:15—And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades!
 

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