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Category Archives: steps
all the answers
I started the day trying to figure out why a computer wasn’t connecting to the Internet. I powered a couple things off and back on. I took a different computer and connected it directly to the modem. I was working … Continue reading
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you all are gonna really see something
You gotta wonder what was going through Jesus’ brain sometimes. I mean, he knew everything, but I wonder if the living in real-time and the living outside of time ever allowed him to laugh. (I know. I gotta let you … Continue reading
now
It is possible to read too much positive thinking material. It is possible, I think, to be too optimistic, to be too ‘everything will work out great’, to be too ‘seize the moment.’ So I won’t be. On the other … Continue reading
it is easy to forget
We had a conversation tonight about a difficult book. There were 6 of us, with different shades of opinion about the book. More accurately, there were 5 of us with different shades and one with a completely different color. I … Continue reading
Carry on
[Matthew 4:12-17] When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he returned to Galilee. It sounds like running away. John had been by the Jordan River. He was on the end of that river closest to Jerusalem. Closest … Continue reading
practicing what you . . .
I told you to do something. I almost didn’t do it myself. I told you to write something from Sunday on a 3×5 card. One truth. One idea. One …something…that you wanted to remember, to make part of your life. … Continue reading
Single steps
Yesterday you may have been in a church building. You may have taught a class. You may have taken a long walk outside and looked up at the sky. You may have spent time with your family. You may have … Continue reading
Descriptive
[Matthew 3:4-5] We want to know what to do. Some of us, anyway, when we become part of a group or we have a new identity or we are starting fresh, we want to know what to do. We want … Continue reading
Do something.
(Matthew 3: 1-4) The first word that John (the baptizer) says, as recorded by Matthew anyway, is ‘repent.’ I’m guessing that it wasn’t the first word he ever spoke, mind you. John was fully human. He would have done and … Continue reading
urgent isn’t always solemn
I thought about my past two posts. I’ve talked about urgency. And I realized that we often confuse urgent with frantic activity. We confuse urgent with serious faces. We confuse urgent with loud voices and high blood pressure. I realized … Continue reading
