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August 2010

August 04, 2010

Eating humble pie

I often dream that I am tagging along behind Jesus, longing for Him to choose...

August 02, 2010

Love flowers. Hate weeds.

My grandfather was a gardener extraordinaire. But he was no lightweight. He was a salty...

July 2010

July 31, 2010

Woman’s bold witness thwarts robber’s plans

She might be only 20 years old, but Pompano Beach, Fla., store manager Nayara Goncalves...

July 27, 2010

Ditch the Safety Talk: Work Dangerously

You can’t have that out in plain sight,” the woman said to me. Her hair...

July 23, 2010

Take your pastor to work day

Justin David Buzzard is a pastor in the San Francisco Bay Area. He wrote an...

July 21, 2010

Crock Pot Christianity

We live in the generation of Right Now. We want everything quickly -- Instant credit,...

July 20, 2010

God’s megaphone

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts...

July 19, 2010

Fertile soil: The secret ingredient

In this life, we are all really fellow farmers, working toward producing good crops. We might...

July 16, 2010

Get up and go

Like you, I've been knocked down many times in the past. With the wind pulled...

July 14, 2010

I heard God

We all hear voices. That’s why therapists, counselors and clergy have no shortage of work.We...

July 12, 2010

The antidote to a lonely life

One of my favorite bloggers is Jennifer Dukes-Lee, who blogs over at Getting Down Jesus....

July 09, 2010

Am I a Pharisee?

Read the Red Letters and you'll see some startling revelations.Some think that Jesus' ministry was...

July 07, 2010

God’s Refrigerator

The following is featured today over at High Calling Blogs.I remember coming home from work...

July 02, 2010

Who’s got the worst boss?

The AFL-CIO recently announced it's annual "My Bad Boss" contest. Once you start to sort...

July 01, 2010

Work can have its ups and downs. There are those days when we bounce into...

July 01, 2010

The worst job in America

What’s the worst job in AmericaThere is an opening for a Kill Supervisor. Here's the...

June 2010

June 30, 2010

A world without clocks

“What would we do without clocks?” That was the question I asked myself after reading...

June 29, 2010

The upside of down

Pick up the newspaper, listen to the talk at any coffee shop, look at the...

June 28, 2010

“I lost my job, but I found my life”

The boss was probably making several calls that night. The company was downsizing, and a...

June 24, 2010

It’s never too late

Bob Buford’s book, Half Time, is directed at those of us in the throes of...

June 21, 2010

I give up

It's amazing how much time I spend trying to defending my territory, holding on to...

June 18, 2010

Letting our hair down

Normally this blog is reserved for serious, weighty matters. There's plenty to contemplate, to resolve,...

June 16, 2010

I’m no accident

I have spent many days wandering the mountains, lakes and streams of the Rocky Mountains....

June 13, 2010

The unbeliever in me

I have always been shocked at how atheists function in a world so rich and...

June 11, 2010

Information is no substitute for communication

The heralded arrival of the Information Age is upon us, and has been for a...

June 10, 2010

“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds,...

June 08, 2010

Bless the work of our hands

If our perspective of work life is blurry, then the Church has not helped clear...

June 05, 2010

You say you want revolution?

Two thousand years ago, there was unrest in the land. The Jewish Zealots were looking...

June 01, 2010

come as children

Heaven is not a playground for kids - we don’t come as children for the...

May 2010

May 30, 2010

What I learned from criticism

When we are criticized, our natural first response is defensive. We may minimize the problem...

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