For Such A Time As This

And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this? Esther 4:14b It’s one of the really cool questions in the Bible. Esther ascended to an influential position in a foreign land through a most unlikely series of events. She subsequently faced a difficult and potentially dangerous [...]

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Good

Happy Monday! I listened to a discussion this weekend that prompted thoughts about today’s word-of-the-week… GOOD Most Sundays I prepare for church while listening to a local radio program called You Get The Blessing. I like it because the hosts take Jesus seriously and themselves not so much. One of the hosts, Bo Mitchell, spent [...]

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Rich’s Ride Presentation

Becky and I enjoyed a wonderful evening at Timberline Church talking about Rich’s Ride. Here’s the video evidence. Can’t see the video? Click here.  

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How To Make God Chuckle

If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans. I’m thinking I might amend this adage. Perhaps another way to make God chuckle is to claim that I understand the details of His plans. Yesterday I shared a story over at Rich’s Ride about a Divine Appointment. I believe that particular encounter in [...]

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Divine Trajectory

Have you ever experienced a divine appointment? Some of us are old enough to recall Apollo 13 as something besides a movie. The mission launched on April 11, 1970 to complete the third manned moon landing. To outside observers, spaceflight had become almost commonplace. This appeared to be just another routine mission, but Apollo 13 reminded everyone [...]

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Disconnect

Happy Monday! I wish I could get a better handle on today’s word-of-the-week… DISCONNECT I learned today that a friend recently suffered a serious injury that threatens his professional future. His response was gratitude, not for the injury but for doctors and for his friends and family. It’s a great example of action and attitude aligned [...]

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Groupthink

Happy Saturday! How much do we allow “fitting in” to shape us? We’d all like to believe we think and act as individuals, but I suspect we aren’t as independent as we think. In the 1950′s, psychologist Solomon Asch conducted a series of experiments known as the Acsh conformity experiments. These videos illustrate a couple [...]

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I Just Don’t Always Know

Yesterday (Maybe I Just Can’t See) I told you the wonderful story of my friend Kelli and her long-term recovery from cancer. I wondered if perhaps Kelli’s ability to not only survive but thrive was a one-degree miracle. A reader sent a great question: Why did you include “perhaps”? Of course this was a miraculous [...]

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Maybe I Just Can’t See

I met Kelli several weeks ago. In her early twenties she struggled through a tough battle with cancer. As she endured multiple rounds of chemotherapy Kelli consistently prayed two prayers—that she would be able to resume her passion as a triathlete and that the doctors’ pronouncement that she would never be able to have children would [...]

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More Lessons

A couple of weeks ago I offered a working list of lessons learned from the bike ride project. To my surprise, I keep learning new stuff as I work on my manuscript. Here are a few additions to my list with some additional commentary on the last item. Let me know what you think. Dreaming is [...]

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