Years ago, I worked with a software architect that made a trip to the headquarters of Microsoft® in Redmond, Washington. While there, he emailed our development team, giving us a first-hand account of a fictitious encounter with Bill Gates at a local Wendy’s® restaurant. His story was entertaining but insightful and pointedly honed to speak […]
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Let Us Celebrate Cristes Maesse
The word for Christmas in Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ. This phrase was first found in a manuscript written in 1038 AD. A word closer to our word, Christmas, is Cristes-messe, found in an 1131 AD manuscript. In Dutch, the word Christmas is Kerstmis; in Latin, it is Dies Natalis, and from Latin comes the French Noël. In […]
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Our Overflowing God
Why has Samsung come out with a new smartphone? The answer is simple. Samsung has found a way to create value from new advances in material science and the science of physics. A few hundred years ago, philosophers threw the baby out with the bathwater. Huh? Modern Philosophy For almost 2,000 years, philosophy was science […]
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Pray Like It Matters
“6 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with […]
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The All of God
Have you ever noticed how often the word ‘all’ is found in the Bible? I was reading Psalm 31 this morning and noticed the ‘alls.’ It made me curious, so I did a quick search. There are 4,638 Bible results for “all” from the English Standard Version of the Bible. That seems like a lot, […]
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Believing in Jesus Brings us into God’s Supernatural
Christianity is supernatural for Christians are born of the spirit. In Jesus, we are beyond the natural.
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Why is God Hard to See?
“Daddy, if God loves us, why does He hide?” I asked my dad when I was young. I don’t remember Dad’s answer but, knowing him, he gave me a thorough, accurate, and theologically correct answer. But, sometimes, we don’t need an expansive answer articulated to us. Instead, we need something we can grab on and […]
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Good Soil
Seeds can be sown correctly, spaced correctly, fertilized correctly, but without good soil they will never germinate, they will never grow and produce fruit. So, what is “good soil?” Good soil seems to have three things. It has dirt. It has sun. It has water (moisture). Think about it, for a seed to grow it […]
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God Sides With You
Our spiritual “deflector shields” (nod to Star Trek) collapse from exhaustion, repetition, and alienation.
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Don’t Waste Your Pain
Ask the Holy Spirit to anoint you to have opportunities to use your pain for the good of others.