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What’s your addiction?

What is it that consumes your attention? What is it that consumes your resources? What is it that consumes your life? Many of us think of addictions as bad things. Addictions are things we need to detox from, they are habits to break. Which is true for most addictions, but… Did you know Joshua wasContinue reading “What’s your addiction?”

20/20 Spiritual Vision

I have worn glasses as long as I can remember. I did wear contacts for a while, but I have given that up, and now just wear the glasses. Without them I can not see everything clearly. Images are fuzzy, and if I am not close enough to things I can not read them. SomeContinue reading “20/20 Spiritual Vision”

Stumbling Block

Have you ever been walking down the road and tripped over something? Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians says, “we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and folly to the Gentiles,” The cross of Christ is a stumbling block and folly. Stumbling blocks are things that impede our progress orContinue reading “Stumbling Block”

Walk on Water

Now we all now it is not physically possible to walk on water. It goes completely against the laws of Physics to walk on water. If you do not know how to swim, and the water is deeper than your head, then you are going to sink. Yet in the 14th chapter of the gospelContinue reading “Walk on Water”

If you are?

This is the first Sunday in Lent. I love the readings for this Sunday, especially the gospel. In today’s reading we get the story of Jesus being driven out into the wilderness. The place where people did not usually go, because wild animals lived there and there were no provisions, no food, probably very littleContinue reading “If you are?”

The Nail

For many years now I have carried a nail with me during Lent. It is a model of a chiseled nail that would have been used to crucify Christ. Now I have no idea if this is really what the nail would have looked like, but to me it represents the pain I put JesusContinue reading “The Nail”

Cross Eyed! – Ash Wednesday

I have a new coffee cup, that I got at a Senior High Youth Event in Austin. It reminds me every day about the trip, but it also reminds me the purpose of my life. It also has a reference to Hebrews 12:2. I also had a shirt a while ago that referenced this verse. Continue reading “Cross Eyed! – Ash Wednesday”

Where are you running?

I don’t know about you, but this first month, which has spilled over into the second month of 2010 has been hectic. It seems I am running every where and doing everything and making progress but in the wrong direction. It seems for every step I take forward I am going backwards 4 or 5.Continue reading “Where are you running?”

Ever been somewhere and wondered how in the world you got there?

Have you ever been some place in a situation and wondered how you got there and how you were going to make it out of it? It is moments like these we seek to use our faith. And what is faith? Hebrews 11 tells us that Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, theContinue reading “Ever been somewhere and wondered how in the world you got there?”

STUPID goals « Running Agile

STUPID goals « Running Agile. This is great. Meant to be for business managers, but I saw huge impacts for church leadership. So many times we want to do what is attainable and going to produce positive out comes. But we have the power of the creator of the universe behind us. He is callingContinue reading “STUPID goals « Running Agile”