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Faith: Does It Look Like This?

Faith: Does It Look Like This?

Why is faith difficult? Why are there so many life lessons concerning faith? To go further, let me challenge you to do an image search. Type the word faith in your internet search box then click images. What do you get? You may see the image below. Is this image,...

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Connections: Love and Leadership

Connections: Love and Leadership

Connections: I love pointing them out in places where they don't seem very obvious. My teaching style runs along that line and I have always referred to it as connecting the dots. I recently helped a group see some of those connections between love and leadership....

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Hitting Life’s Curveballs

Hitting Life’s Curveballs

I know everyone is not a baseball fan, or even a sports fan. And this post is about life, not baseball. But the baseball metaphor is helpful! Life Lessons: What's a Curveball? Hitting a baseball is difficult. And it gets more difficult when a talented pitcher can...

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Friends We Know

Friends We Know

Have you ever wanted to craft your own happily ever after? Then Page is your girl! Here’s why: When I met her it was easy to see her skill at making complex things much simpler. That’s due to her years in the nuclear sector streamlining systems and optimizing...

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The Cost of Intimacy

The Cost of Intimacy

Intimacy does have a cost, right? Even human wisdom discerns this. You may remember these famous words: Can't buy me love, can't buy me love...I don't care too much for money for money can't buy me love. - The Beatles Life Lessons: The Intimate Nature of Worship...

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Money: The Root Of All Evil?

Money: The Root Of All Evil?

Money is the root of all evil. Has anyone ever said that to you? They may have also said this: God helps those who help themselves. But, I digress...  In I Timothy 6:10a, Paul wrote: For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil… Money itself is not evil. But...

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Faith: Can I Trust Others?

Faith: Can I Trust Others?

The immediate response to the title question is probably, NO! Why? Being let down is one of the life lessons we have all had to learn. Now, at some level we must trust others because none of us serve the Lord as a Lone Ranger. But when it comes to trusting others,...

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Faith: Why Is It Difficult? 2

Faith: Why Is It Difficult? 2

Faith is the subject of so many of our life lessons. We know that, but why must it be that way? This is where we ended the previous post. As much as we might wish for faith to be a once-and-done affair, by God's design that cannot be the case! Let's look at two of the...

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Faith: Why Is It Difficult?

Faith: Why Is It Difficult?

Why is faith such a challenge? Why is faith the subject of so many life lessons? Can't we learn the faith lesson and move on to something else? The answers may surprise you, challenge you, and you may not necessarily like them. But faith is not only the key to...

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Keith Burnett

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