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Prompted by an article on pastorhacks.net I've been a Palm Pilot PDA user since my mom bought me one when I graduated from seminary. (Palm Vx, and awesome tool!) The best feature of the Palm is the ability to have my contacts and calendar on my computer at home and also on a device in my pocket. …
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God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love---like Christ in every- thing. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. Ephesians 4:15 MSG I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, 'You are my …
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! ... We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. 2 Corinthians 5:17, 20 [Jesus said,] I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have …
Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel---'God is with us.' Isaiah 7:14 NLT ...and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Luke …
Of course, you've always known you were important, but perhaps you never realized how important or why. In fact, you are more important than you realize but in ways you never considered. Then God said, "Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves. They will be masters over all …
GOD is real, and everything (well almost everything) you have heard about him is true! Many may doubt his existence, but you can't doubt his effects. Look around. I mean, honestly, do you believe that the infinite depth of space was produced from nothingness by random fluctuation of quantum …
No one came to last night's Bible 101 study that I had scheduled at our house. In light of that, I've determined to not focus on programs that aim to "get people to come" and instead, focus on meeting people one-to-one to key in on evangelism and discipleship. In light of that, I've decided to put …
I was surprised today to see a new external link coming into my site! http://www.fingertoe.com/ Thanks Josh! …
Today, Jen and I took the kids to the Mall of America because our conference doesn't start until tomorrow and what else do you do in St. Paul, Minnesota? (Actually, I think St. Paul and Minneapolis are really cool, and I have seriously thought about moving here at times.) Have you heard about the …
We have safely made it to St. Paul, Minnesota, and my daughter is so excited to be in Minnesota even though she has no real clue what it is. We were sitting in the restaurant tonight, and she piped up, "We're in Minnesota! It's a restaurant." Perhaps that's one way to look at the state that is home …
Yesterday we left the comforts of home for the latest Mikels family roadtrip. I have a hard time calling it a road trip because we are only going to Minneapolis from Lafayette which means we will only be about 9 hours away from home. Can that really be a road trip? Anyway, our trip has three …
Since I'm spending today as a "Sabbath" to focus on some spiritual things, I've spent some time this morning looking at some church plant websites, and here are a few that I've come across. jonathan herron of catalyst.church LifeChurch Acts 29 Network --- specifically, be sure to check out this …
In my last post in this category, I gave a narrative description of the first 6 books of the Old Testament ending with the death of Joshua. Now, I'm picking up where that post left off. The key thing to remember for the rest of Jewish history is that the Jews lived in a constant cycle that went …
According to the "Enneagram," I am an Enthusiast. Here are some quotes from the website: The Busy, Fun-Loving Type: Spontaneous, Versatile, Acquisitive, and Scattered Easily become accomplished achievers, generalists who do many different things well: multi-talented. Practical, productive, …
I'm posting some links here so I can close the windows and maybe come back to them later... MC Hammer's Blog! Free Music Downloads …
I don't know if you have this problem, but I am a procrastinating distracted creative learning computer geek I generally have between 10 and 20 projects going on all at the same time, but I almost never finish any of them because I get new ideas and set to work on the new ones forgetting about …