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Why EVERYTHING Looks Better in the Store

 

I LOVE shopping for TVs. The newest "4K Ultra HD Awesome Sauce TV" in the showroom gets my heart pounding, and I can envision how much better my life will be with it in my living room. This is goin...

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Faith and Science...

When the doctrines of faith and science meet, many view it as a collision of opposite ideals and extremes - I see it as a beautiful waltz of 2 distinct ideals with more in common than people realize. ...

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There's No Such Thing as a Stupid Question...

“Now remember class, there’s no such thing as a stupid question”. I can remember my 2nd grade teacher saying this to us often after she’d had just given us a list of instruction to follow. She wanted ...

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The Top 5 Takeaways From My Sabbatical

Blog post from blog.thejourneyonline.com on August 10th, 2016.


In case there are some people in our church who missed the memo over this past summer, I recently partook in an 9 week Sabbatical and ...

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A Cynical Optimist - Is that even a real thing?

I have a friend who considers himself to be a “cynical optimist”. I’m not exactly sure if that really is a thing, or just another fancy contradiction we’ve come up with to describe our complex persona...

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Pastor Gives in to Unbelief after 30 years of Ministry...

Recently, an Atheist blog called “Rational Doubt” came across my FlipBoard newsfeed and I was intrigued by the headline so I decided to read the story. By the end of the article, I was just pissed off...

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5 Ways Participation Awards are Destroying America

I’m not exactly sure that we are “destroying America”, but I do believe that we are setting up the next generation for failure, in turn harming our future by NOT setting them up for success.

Let me s...

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Close the Museum: Inventing Tomorrow

In 1997, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, one of his first actions was to clear out the company’s “museum” of old products and donate them to Stanford University. Jobs understood that Apple was stuc...

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“The Best Day Ever” – the Essential Attitude of LIFE!

As a father of two, soon to be three, I often find myself learning life’s greatest lessons from the simplest moments. My 11-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son have an uncanny ability to remind me of...

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Doubters

Okay, so this will be a short post.  It is for all those "doubters" out there.  I don't mean the ones that live in a constant state of worry, anxiety or hopelessness - those people have other issues I...

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Freedom vs. Grave-Tending

Strange title? Maybe... or maybe not! I was reading in a small men's (men of all sizes actually) S.O.A.P bible study this morning Romans 8: 1-17. I recently purchased this amazing parallel bible that ...

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The Early Lessons of Adopting “Better Experiments”

 "The future of the church is not going to be built on implementing Best Practices, but on our willingness to attempt Better Experiments" - Will Mancini

I love this quote and it has stuck with me for...

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