Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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Letting Go
There are times when you simply have to let go. Although letting go is seldom a simple thing. For the past several weeks I’ve been evaluating my spiritual life especially in the area of prayer. I’m finding, that in order to discover a greater sense of God’s grace I simply have to let go of…
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Finally….
The joys of dialup are simply amazing. I guess once you have a cable modem you really never want to go back. Now that I only can get dialup I find that statement is true. Actually, I have a pretty good setup. I have my computer set to automatically dialup and get my email. The…
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Church Marketing Sucks: No Need to Impress
Church Marketing Sucks: No Need to Impress An interesting website that I plan on mining some more. Living in our current culture, I find I keep osolating between living in, accepting and “doing life” like the culture suggests and living ‘against’ the culture. One good thing, I believe, is being free and brave enough to…
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My Time with Leonard Sweet
Well, I did it! I sent my registration in for a workshop with Leonard Sweet. After reading his books and website I finally am taking an opportunity to see him live and in person! The workshop includes three sessions, worship and dinner. It sounds odd (even to me), but I am having difficulty decided whether…
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Pursuing God
I started re-reading “The Pursuit of God” by A. W. Tozer a few days ago. I originally bought the book in the late 80’s for 99 cents. That was an excellent price. In fact, for this book it was better than an excellent deal. If you ever haven’t had the chance of reading this book,…
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Africa Challenge
Well, if you want to be challenged, here’s a link to go to It is from SansBlogue and has a quote from Bono (U2 fame) dealing with how the west has basically forgotten (or chooses not to acknowledge) the issues in Africa. I’m not really current on the issues, but I do know one of…