*shrug*

I can encourage people. I can challenge people. I spend time with God daily. I’m comfortable praying out loud. I can give advice and guidance.
In essence, I am a leader. I can do things that leaders do.
I can talk the talk.
I realized this today in a small group I am [...]

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Today’s song of the day is Undignified by The David Crowder Band.

1 Samuel 6:21-22 (NIV)
21 … I will celebrate before the LORD. 22 I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. ...

In King David’s own words, “I will be humiliated in my own eyes.” In [...]

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Ponder with me . . . pick something you’d like to be good at and think of the results you could have if for the next ten years you spent two hours a day everyday deliberately practicing that “craft.”
According to the research conducted in what’s called the Expert Performance Movement, if pondering the above went [...]

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You ever have one of those nights where you can’t sleep because you feel like God is on the prowl?
I’m having one of those nights, so I decided to log some of my thoughts. Maybe it’ll tire me out so that I can sleep afterwards.
Uncovering a core value
Every now and then I wonder [...]

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This is a follow-up to my last post talking about ways to ensure continual spiritual growth. In the post, I talked about some big bucket areas that I wanted to check on monthly to ensure I was growing in them.
Along with those buckets, I wanted to look up some memory verses as reference points [...]

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Last Tuesday, Pastor Paul Scanlon of Abundant Life Ministries came and spoke to the staff at Celebration Church.
It was good stuff.
One of the things he talked about was creating an atmosphere of growth. He used a laptop as an analogy for human tendency. If you let a laptop sit there, it will eventually [...]

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I find it “coincidental” that my last two posts have unknowingly followed a progression that will be completed with this post.
If you’ve been following along, you know that recently God has given me a greater level of faith and the right “heart” desire to walk out that faith.
Since I’m in a season of life that [...]

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I received some advice once. It was “give it back to God.”
That advice really began to come alive at a concert I was at couple of weeks ago. MercyMe was closing out the night with a song called “Bring the Rain.”
God was wrecking me through this song.
The chorus goes something [...]

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Alright, it’s time for some post-fast thoughts and reflections. God has been doing so much that I really need to take the time to “log” it all.
To summarize, God is doing something way different in my life. I remember half kidding awhile back that I’ve been through more valleys than mountaintops.
But whatever God [...]

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Lately, I’ve been starting to develop good, solid friendships.
What did I do tonight? I had dinner with some friends. We came back to my place and watched a movie. Then we talked about what Jesus was doing in our lives. We encouraged each other with things God had taught us or [...]

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