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  • “Living Every Minute of Life to its Ultimate” We must hold every isolated thing in high regard whatever their use, to treat them gently, to take care of them well whatever their age. It leads us to become part of …

  • “Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, …

  • "Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh, There is always another story, …

  • Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, Every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its formula. Fyodor Dostoyevsky The most beauti…

  • Should We Judge Other People? On the one hand the Bible says: “Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults--unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way…

  • Fi-re, Fi-re—Cause When You’re Hot, You’re Hot!! I got the call early Friday morning (12:15am) that my Teen Challenge center was on fire! One of the staff blasted it with the extinguishers and knocked it down then s…

  • Scam Cost Churches, Parishioners $160 Million, Officials Say Stephen Magagnini -- Bee Staff Writer Published 2:15 a.m. PST Saturday, November 22, 2003 Several Northern California pastors, including Sacramento's As…

  • Hear No, See No, Speak No Evil Isn't this a great picture?!!

  • GOD SENDS US MINISTERING SPIRITS--ANGELS Hebrews 1:14 "Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?" Hebrews 13:2 "Be ready with a meal or a bed when it's needed. Why, some ha…

  • My Tribute to Hahn Do When I heard the news of Hahn's death...I asked "Why God!" She was so passionate about life, serious about her studies, intentional about God, committed to her church, to reaching out to the lo…

  • Arkansas--Not that Bad! I'm home now from a week in Little Rock. I didn't get to see much of the city or state for that matter, just a motel conference room with 75 other learners trying to get a handle on leadership co…

  • the barbarian nature of christianity I just watched an amazing dvd of a speaker who argued that we have domesticated the faith so much that we've taken the danger, adventure, and risk from it. His text was: Matt. 11:…

  • ANYONE INTERESTED IN JOINING A RELIGIOUS ORDER? In the early days of the development of the Americas, Roman Catholic brothers and sisters built churches, hospitals, and schools throughout the continent. They single…

  • FOUR JOURNEY MILESTONES Author Scott Peck (Road Less Traveled) suggests that our personal spiritual journeys have four basic milestones: MILESTONE ONE—SELF-OBSESSED This is the characteristic of children—th…

  • Traveling from Poplar Bluff , Missouri to Little Rock , Arkansas We traveled from Springfield to Bernie , Missouri (4.5 hours) on Sunday afternoon to present the work of our all-female drug & alcohol tr…

  • Why Write Daily...Or More Often than Not? …In this information age, we are being bombarded with data and facts—writing helps us sort out the spam and begin to come to terms with that which is meaningful…

  • exciting shifts underway from traditional evangelical positions (Excerpts from “The Post Evangelical”) Mike Yaconelli—“The fuel for evangelicalism is not so much running out as the increasing longing for God is makin…

  • The Post-Evangelical I just received a book entitled: "The Post-Evangelical" The preface says: "You believe in the God of the Bible--but you cringe when church leaders oversimplify, trivialize, and absolutize the faith…

  • ~Lifework~Vocation~ ~Steve Smallwood~ Purpose:Why Do I Exist? “To live adventurously, love lavishly, learn voraciously, and leave an authentic spiritual legacy that bears the marks of the full stature of Christ.” Key…

  • Morning Stroll Around the Neighborhood Rounding the school yard quarter-mile track, heart barely beating, Centurion teacher, whistling, guarding the playground's frolicers, Today’s Proverb assuring, reassuring, cal…

  • A hero of the faith dies!! Mike Yaconelli, owner and co-founder of Youth Specialties, was involved in a fatal car accident late Wednesday night, October 29, outside his hometown of Yreka, in northern California. He pass…

  • HYPERBOLE—LYING WITHOUT DECEIVING All “paradigm pioneers” are hyperbolists!That is to say, if you’re out to change the status quo’s belief about any subject, by necessity you will be guilty of hyperbole—i.e., “an exagg…

  • Ever wonder where you came from?--I have. Here’s a picture of the township where my name originated--Astbury, Cheshire (England) along with a little history. I’d love to go there someday.The surname Smallwood is, by ge…

  • A Passion for the Poor http://www.convoyofhope.org I had lunch with Steve Donaldson (Executive VP of Convoy of Hope). I was inspired and moved by his personal passion for the plight of the poor. Steve is younger than…

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