The Key is in Your Pocket

Do you want your life to be one people remember in a positive light?
Do you hope people remember you as one who looked at what might be with hope and optimism?
Would you like to see what God is doing around you and say to a friend “Look what GoD just did!”  and thank Him for [...]

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Re-post: Feeling Poor is Not a Financial Condition

I’m looking forward to working with young marrieds, young families and young singles at Calvary Memorial this fall.
One of the things I really want to do is help those families stay out of debt (like we didn’t).   So I’m gathering helpful materials to use in classes, seminars and across the table in one to one [...]

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I’m Honored to Participate

Good morning!
My/our son Jared has revamped his blog, With | One | Voice with an admirable purpose and objective as it relates to worship ministry.  He’s asked me to contribute and it was an honor to say “Of course!”
Take a look, bookmark With | One | Voice so you can check in periodically to see [...]

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God Is At Work –

We have a framed saying in our dining room:
I believe in the sun,
even when it is not shining.
I believe in love,
even when I do not feel it.
I believe in God,
even when He is silent.
It was discovered written on the wall of a Nazi concentration camp.
What encouraging words, realizing the conditions in which they were penned!
God [...]

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Quality Assurance on a Personal Level

A friend of mine says, tongue-in-cheek, that life gets pretty interesting sometimes when you’re married to the Holy Spirit.  His wife just smiles and shakes her head when he says that.  She probably tolerates his saying so because she knows the trouble he’d be in if she just let things go!
I’m currently on a temporary [...]

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Clear Conscience; Sweet Confidence

The French have a proverb:
There’s no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
It’s true, of course. When you’ve nothing to worry about, there’s nothing on your “I shouldn’t have” list, sleep is sweet.
There are waking-hours benefits to a clear conscience as well:

You don’t have to hit the brakes when you see a patrol car in [...]

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You get what you emphasize…

If you work with, live with, travel with, play with, or attempt to lead PEOPLE you already know the challenge of getting behavior you want from the people you work, live, travel, play with – or try to lead.

Someone once asked Leonard Bernstein how he got what he did from the orchestras he conducted.
“I get [...]

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Thoughts on Apprenticeship

“He’s just like you!
What a champion!”
Wouldn’t it be great if that was always a high compliment?
Or maybe

“I am forever indebted to her.
She believed in me before I even knew I had potential.”
Jared’s written a great think-piece on With one Voice – and you need to take a minute and go look.
Who’s coming up behind you?  [...]

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A Must-Read for You

Hey there —
If you’re in music and worship ministry you need to stop by “With| One| Voice” and read or review Jared’s recent entry
the |pursuit| of a worship team
Definitely a “Selah” (think about it) post.
Go see.  Go think.

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I’d Rather Ask Then Tell

There’s a noteworthy perspective in the little book of Philemon I’ve been thinking about lately.  Philemon is one of the book-studies I suggested to the life-group I’m teaching, so I’m reviewing it on my own.
…though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is requiered, yet for love’s sake I prefer [...]

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