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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Rep. Joe Wilson, Kanye West and Serena Williams have reminded us what we should already know- somebody is always paying attention to what we say or do. Having a disagreement isn’t the issue- how we disagree is. I recently had to drop a “friend” from Facebook due to the vitriol of his posts. When it [...]
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Just finished planning our new message series, Passion, with John Gordy, our Spanish langauge pastor. I have a new favorite verse. Habbakuk 2:2,3 And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing [...]
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Thursday, June 16th, is my first day back at Sweetwater River Church in 12 days. My family and I went to Bakersfield to help my dad celebrate his 80th birthday. From there it was on to San Francisco for a couple of days, Sacramento and the gold country for a couple of days and then [...]
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I’m a lifelong Californian and I’ve noticed that we tend to be pretty selective about what laws we decide to obey and which laws we decide to ignore when driving in our cars. A couple of examples: Californians almost never toss litter out the window. I have never seen anyone fail to wait for the [...]
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It’s Tuesday morning after a Monday holiday and I’m already behind a day. It puts a little pressure on to get things done. Sometimes we just need to realize that we won’t get it all done. That frees the mind to concentrate on the most important tasks at hand. Instead of crossing multiple items off [...]
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