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Month: August 2016

New Season, Same Approach

New Season, Same Approach

As the month of August ends, I always feel like we are starting the fall and yet it is still 85 or 90 degrees outside. Despite the heat, I just get the feeling that it’s just got to get cooler soon and I will get my energy level back. Then, when it cools off it is the time of year when most of us get back into a rhythm and routine. We feel like the pace should pick up and…

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Seasons of Life

Seasons of Life

Today in 2014, Tracy and I got on the plane to London. It was the last time we would head for the UK for teaching and lectures. I cannot remember having more mixed emotions than today. There was the exhilaration of getting to see new students who are eager to learn accompanied by a passion for God. Knowing that they were the last group of theological students I would teach pulled at my heart. The past seven years have been…

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Humility

Humility

While I have broached this subject lightly in the past, I would like to take today’s time to think more specifically about how this comes about in a believer’s mind/heart. Humility is not something that a person is just born with, has or one day obtains. I feel like it is something we learn through the school of hard knocks – or if you would prefer through a number of hasty, dumb or downright stupid decisions. We all make them,…

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The Best of Intentions

The Best of Intentions

This weekend I am enjoying the privilege of being on a board retreat. Having an opportunity to meet and spend time with people who have a similar focus and direction, as well as the desire to see an organization prosper and grow is very fulfilling. However, it is also a time that invokes memories of previous board retreats, countless board meetings and all of the ideas, talk and good intentions that generally accompany a gathering like this. There is always…

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Slow Down and Smell The Roses

Slow Down and Smell The Roses

Over the last few decades I have had the opportunity of working with almost every aspect of the Human Resource process. I never gave much thought to the hiring process until I began using psychometric tools to help me see what is often not visible during the interview process. Students are trained to interview, those who have had multiple jobs have gained the experience and then some people just interview well. It can be a difficult process, even when you…

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Unsung Friends

Unsung Friends

Yesterday we talked about parents who molded and shaped the lives of our Biblical Heroes. Obviously we will have to wait to get the whole story and obtain a sense of what they did that molded and shaped the hearts of their children and prepared them for eternal scrutiny through the scriptures. Oh my goodness, if we could only understand what they did to make that profound of an impact. But there were others also that had a tremendous impact…

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