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Pondering Life's Mysteries: Internet and the Bible
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Sunday, June 29, 2014. Internet and the Bible. One of the coolest things about the Internet is you can find people like you. Have a crick in your neck? Someone out there has experienced or is experiencing the same thing and has shared a remedy. Other people are too. Trying to sustain a long distance relationship? You aren’t the first. Enjoy handcrafting wood furniture? There is a whole community that eats that stuff up! A community of people. So did the Israelites. So did Abraham and Sarah. If so, please...
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Pondering Life's Mysteries: June 2013
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Pike's Place, Where People Trump Profits. During my most recent visit to Seattle, my favorite city. I ended up at Pike's Public Market early, before it was even open. I wandered through the aisles and found a gathering of people around a whiteboard depicting the layout of the market. According to one bystander, it was morning roll call, so I stayed to watch. But tomorrow the people will sign in for work again and the market will spring back to life with new stories to hear. Just ...
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Pondering Life's Mysteries: January 2015
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Monday, January 26, 2015. When Santa Claus Dies. What happens when you learn Santa Claus isn’t real? You become a little less eager to get up on Christmas morning and rip open the packages. You don’t not want presents. You just know that the reality is your parents bought them so it’s a good bet everything that was on your list is under the tree. No need to lose a few more minutes of sleep. It’s not less special. It just makes sense why all the presents seem so customized to your wishes. What changes is ...
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Pondering Life's Mysteries: The Customized Life
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Have you ever been in the middle of a perfect storm? Where it felt like the stars were aligned against you? Like everything that could go wrong did? The destruction felt catastrophic because it hit where you were most vulnerable. If it had gone any other way it would have been manageable; you may not have even felt it. But it seemed like what you were experiencing was custom-designed to expose your weakness. Have you ever been in love? It seems silly to be afraid that you might fal...
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Pondering Life's Mysteries: Peace With Hard Choices
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Monday, June 23, 2014. Peace With Hard Choices. PART I- - -. Hard choices come about in our lives. What career path should I follow? Which job should I take? Where should I live? Who should I marry? A hard choice, as this TED talk. When choosing between two alternatives with no clear hierarchy we often search for peace in the decision. But the nature of hard choices, that neither is better than the other overall, means there will be no peace before. Peace only comes after. PART II- - -. Christians like t...
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Pondering Life's Mysteries: August 2014
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Sunday, August 17, 2014. God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8 (ESV) -. He has the ability. Not to be interpreted that He may or may not do it. But it is in His power, in His authority and in His nature. God is able to provide you with every blessing. To provide generously to his children. Provide what? God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance. Did some...
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Pondering Life's Mysteries: December 2013
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013. What's Propelling You Into The New Year? There is something cleansing about entering a new year. It's hard to articulate, but you can feel it. We flip the calendar and it feels like a fresh start. There's a new hope. And we have reason to dream of change and a new life. With that, I capture what is propelling me into the new year ( 2012 version. What truth emerged from the pain of the last 12 months? What encouragement can I lean on from any wins? Not who do you want to be.
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Pondering Life's Mysteries: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Perhaps you have permission to speak into someone's life. You are given permission to speak based on any number of qualifications. Sometimes you are just in the right place at the right time. Many times you are chosen because you speak about something they want to hear. The most lasting speakers have earned permission to speak through a relationship of trust, consistency and integrity. Rarely does it work to force or impose permission. Why do they have permission? What is ha...
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Pondering Life's Mysteries: Introduction
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Sunday, December 16, 2007. Welcome to my blog! I plan on posting whenever I learn something new that I feel like sharing, but as you probably know life goes in cycles. Sometimes you are in a stage of growth, sometimes you are in a stage of application and sometimes you are just trying to survive. They say the most common post in Christopher Columbus' journals when he was sailing across the Atlantic was, "Today, we sailed on.". I hope you will join me in pondering life's great mysteries :). Nice job, BB.
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Pondering Life's Mysteries: April 2013
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Saturday, April 27, 2013. Digging a Deep Well. After a record-setting blogging year in 2012, it might appear I've lost some momentum considering this is just my third post in 2013, but actually the opposite is true. Momentum is at an all-time high, but it's just that for now, momentum; potential energy waiting to be let loose. I'm learning about a new season that we all should experience in life. It's the season for digging wells. And falls right into my wheelhouse. It's coming, but not yet. You press th...