The antidote to stress is supposed to be the balanced life. If you can get all the demands on your time and energy “balanced out”, you’ll find harmony. But it is never that easy. You can only keep things balanced until someone (your boss or a family member for example) places a new request on [...]
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I going to be in Bakersfield tomorrow night for a San Diego Hope dessert. I’m sharing the vision with some people I’ve known for years about what we are doing in the urban core of San Diego. As we plant churches and increase our outreaches in this multi-ethnic and spiritually diverse area, we need additional [...]
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Today is the first day of Lent, a season that I have come to value more and more. The whole concept of giving up something you enjoy during Lent is to practice self denial. This year I’m giving up snacks…it is now 2:30 pm and there is chocolate in the next room calling to me. [...]
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Thank you to all who have been reading my blog. Since November, traffic has doubled.
Also a thank you to Kurt Warner, retiring quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals. Kurt put God and family before fame. At an age when most quarterbacks have either made it or are backups, Kurt became a star. God gave him the [...]
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Because I’m on Facebook, I see a lot of posts towards the end of the work week about people looking forward to the weekend. I understand the desire for Saturday to roll around…a time to sleep in, be with family, do something fun, etc. But I think that deep down, there is a disappointment with [...]
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O’Rourke
I am a reader- from fiction to classics to history to leadership. One of the things I am doing this year to establish reading as a priority is to keep track of how many books I’ve read. [...]
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My approach to life lately has been is that it is scary fun. It came to me as I was on the Tower of Terror ride at California Adventure across from Disneyland. The ride is a Twilight Zone themed elevator ride with unexpected drops and lifts. At the end I had experienced “scary fun”.
We live in uncertain [...]
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Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations. Romans 4:18
Hopeless situations require a hopeful person. Sometimes to keep going forward is to go against all hope. It is at these moments that you must believe that where you are headed is where God intended for you to go. [...]
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There’s a big difference between waiting for something to happen and making something happen. Learning to know when to wait and when to act is a lesson that needs to be learned early in life.
God sometimes has us in a waiting mode while He gives us further instructions. Trying to start something when God says [...]
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A lot of what we do in life is out of duty. We know we should, we know we could but do we? I think a lot of it depends on how you view personal responsibility.
If I look at duty as something I get to do to help another person instead of something I’m obligated to [...]
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