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Be a Turkey

My wife just about gagged when I told her I bought frozen breakfast sandwiches with “turkey sausage.” “Turkey only tastes good when it’s being turkey,” ...

Free At Last! / The Forgiveness of Sin

Free at last, my sins are forgiven! Thank God, I’m free at last … but what does this MEAN? Forgiveness of sin means I am ...

Purpose vs. Selfishness

“… intent on one purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.” –Philippians 2:2b-3 ...

Worthiness vs. Entitlement

The difference between “worthy” and “entitled” is a willingness to do the work. A worthy person believes they are qualified to receive good things, and ...

Why Speaking “Birdie” Doesn’t Work

My 5-year old daughter loves to find birds in our neighborhood and try to call them to come to her. “Tweet tweet” she says. “Tweet ...

Every New Day

Every new day is a new page, blank on one side and covered on the other with all that has come before. You cannot change ...

The Surprising Link Between Growing Your Business and Weighing Yourself

Have you ever had that moment where you stand on a scale to weigh yourself, see the numbers fluctuating, and try to *will* them to ...

What I Learned About Business From Getting Lost at DFW Airport

I got lost at DFW International Airport when I was 6 years old. My father and I were there to pick up a family member, ...

The Win is in the Walking

“This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.” -1 John 5:4b God has shown you the pathway to ultimate victory, a salvation ...

What a Snake Reminded Me About Fear

On a bike ride with my family the other day, a black snake darted right across our path. Thankfully, we simply rolled on by and ...

Your Past Does Not Define Your Future

There is so much sin, failure, and wrong in the lineage of Jesus recorded in Matthew 1 that you might think these people would be ...

Throw Away Your Easy Button

This is my Easy Button, a desktop toy from Staples that added flare and fun to my working environment for many years. I’m throwing it ...

Great Leaders

GREAT LEADERS know when to step up, and when to step down. They are ready to step in when needed, and willing to step aside ...

Two Surprising Insights from Jeff Bezos & Captain Kirk (pt. 2)

A couple of weeks ago, billionaire Jeff Bezos had a really, really important conversation with a 90-year old man that could have gone really, really ...

Two Surprising Insights From Jeff Bezos & Captain Kirk (pt. 1)

Did you hear Captain Kirk finally made it to space for real? Last week, 90-year-old William Shatner not only became the oldest person ever to ...

American. Heroes.

On September 11, 2001, I was working at the News-Press, our local paper. Like every other American, that morning I woke to a new world, ...

3 Unbreakable Laws of Organic Marketing

Plenty of people talk about the power of organic marketing and how simple it can be when done correctly. But if you do it wrong… ...

How Are You Doing on the “Not Covid Test”?

A few weeks ago I got sick and wondered what everyone does these days… “Is it Covid? It turns out it wasn’t, but… I was ...

I Never Knew What My Old Watch Was Costing Me

It’s easy to assume the current way you’re working, living, and operating is just “the way things are.” Until you discover a better way. It’s ...

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What “the Toilet Paper Crisis” of 2020 Reveals About Burnout

Remember when the whole world lost their mind over toilet paper? Stores couldn’t keep it in stock. People hoarded it and treated it like gold. ...

Jesus cleared your debt completely

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 2 JESUS CLEARED YOUR DEBT COMPLETELY And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with …

TOPICS: atonement, Colossians 2, cross, debt, forgiveness, justice, propitiation, salvation, sin

God’s heart is for the helpless

Scripture Notes on Psalm 82 How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. (Psalm 82:2-3) All throughout Scripture, God has harsh words and strong judgments for those in authority …

TOPICS: assistance, charity, help, justice, kindness, love, mercy, needy, outreach, Psalm 82

The things that matter most

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.” (Matthew 23:23) —– Sometimes in the Christian life it’s easy to …

TOPICS: discipleship, faithfulness, greed, justice, Matthew 23, mercy, Pharisees, tithing

In Christ, God’s judgement will bring you joy

Scripture Notes on Psalm 96 He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in His faithfulness. (Psalm 96:13b) Most people don’t think of God’s judgement as a happy thing. We get images in our minds of the great throne of God, of all the people of the earth …

TOPICS: imputation, Jesus, judgement, justice, Psalm 96, righteousness

All Who Are Oppressed

Was it only Jesus who was sent to “set the captives free”? I had a conversation once with a man who argued that it is the Church’s responsibility to help only those who are believers. He pointed out what the Apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 6:10, “as we have opportunity, …

TOPICS: calling, church, deliverance, justice, mercy, oppression, Psalm 103, service

And Justice for All (Reflections on 9/11 and the cross)

I’ll never forget that day, and neither will you. They say that when dawn breaks over new-fallen snow, it’s like waking up to a whole new world… but I live in Florida. The only “new world” I’ve woken up to was heralded not by a carpet of fresh white winter, …

TOPICS: 9-11, 9/11, holiness, justice, punishment, retribution, revenge, Romans 12, Romans 13, September 11, terrorism

Punishment Prayers

Is it wrong to pray punishment on other people? “Fill their faces with shame [so] THAT they may seek Your name, O Lord. Let them be put to shame and dismay forever; let them perish in disgrace, [so] THAT they may know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, …

TOPICS: justice, Psalm 83, punishment, revenge, vengeance

Justice and Love: Psalm 7

“I will thank the Lord because He is just; I will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.” -Psalm 7:17 Meditating on this passage recently, here are a few thoughts that came to mind. – Love without choice is not love, but slavery. Choice without consequences is …

TOPICS: justice, love, Psalm 7, scripture notes

Traitors and Tyrants

“Why do You idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?” -Habakkuk 1:13b Judas was a traitor, used of God to fulfill His purposes (John 17:12). What of him? Consider the pagan conqueror Cyrus, “whose right hand I [the LORD] …

TOPICS: bible, contemplations, habakkuk, justice, sovereignty

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