Tag: time
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Is This the Last Fall-Back to Standard Time?
It is that time of year again. The time when those of us who live on the far eastern edge of a time zone have to watch it get dark before dinner arrives. This is the time of year down in the south when you turn on the Cowboys, playing at AT&T Stadium, and see…
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Time Expired
beams of radiance heat shimmer rising softly a watch in the night On thoughts of baseball… there’s always tomorrow, except when there’s not. Then there’s hope for what’s to come. Rom 15.13.
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Look in the Rearview Mirror God is Pursuing a Relationship With You
I love this shot, it just feels like my life over the past few months, and it makes a great photo of the day today. I took this shot with my iPhone on the way to work in the rain a few weeks ago, and in a blur of motion, when I looked in the…
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The Management and Passage of Time Measured in Breaths
I was tasked months ago at work with completing a plan of how I spend my time, and visioning for the future. It has taken me a while to do this, and I’m still not totally done, but I finished a section of it this week. Typically I have never really been the best at…
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Ministering to the Church At the Expense of the Family
This is an old topic, but one that never goes away, for good reason. Below is basically an excerpt from an assignment in one of my evangelism classes on Servant-Leadership and innovations in the Church, and also serves as a very short review of the book InnovateChurch by Jonathan Falwell. In a three part discussion…
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I AM Lenten Reader, Bread of Life :: Lent Day 5
Today our reading comes from the common book of prayer. In case you are wondering why I am on day 5 and the reader is on day 6, I am just going by the traditional “40 days” of Lent, which does not include the Sunday’s of Lent. I did it this way because there is…
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I AM Lenten Reader, Journaling :: Lent Day 4
Day 4 :: Friday, March 11, 2011, Journaling Journaling has been a practice throughout the history of the church. Prophets, philosophers, theologians wrote down their thoughts as they sought to understand God and grow in their relationship with Him. Throughout scripture, God commanded people to write things down and keep a record of what He…
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Processing Life Like Watson on Jeopardy or World Community Grid
This is sort of a quasi review slash life contemplation post, and really ended up just being a really random article, so stick with it, but I still don’t promise a coherent application at the end this time. The title could just as easily been “How Can We Harness our Power for God’s Glory”, so…
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What’s Saint Valentine’s Day Minus Commercialization?
So it’s Valentine’s Day again, and while I would like to say I go all out on Valentine’s Day, I usually do not. Not only that, but I am also not a gift buyer for this day, and much of it specifically has to do with how commercialized every single possible holiday day has become.…
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Tick Tock Goes the Clock by Jacques Marciano :: Poem
Today I have a guest author, one of my nephews (published here under my given pen name for him), graciously offered one of his poems for this Saturday sidenote post. After reading several of his poems I realized that poetry is certainly not dependent on age for elegance and beauty. My first thought was, not…
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Photo-Video Year in Review for 2009
2009 was a busy year that saw a lot of changes in our household. Throughout each month of each year for the past 15-18 years or so I have taken photos every chance I get, but it has only been in the past several years where I have taken photos of just about everything my…
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Getting Sick is a Waste of Time, Or is It?
I would say I hate getting sick, but so does everyone. I haven’t been sick to the point where I felt like I needed to stay home from work (or refrain from work, these days you can work from anywhere) for years. I say years because I really can’t remember the last time I didn’t…
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What is Faith Without Love
I have asked this question many times before, but happens when we have faith, but no love in our heart? Does it not become an empty faith, or is it just something we do to go through the motions, or is it actually possible to have faith without love for one another. Hard to deny…
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What is Faith Without Love
I have asked this question many times before, but happens when we have faith, but no love in our heart? Does it not become an empty faith, or is it just something we do to go through the motions, or is it actually possible to have faith without love for one another. Hard to deny…
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Well It's Full Speed Baby in the Wrong Direction
Every have hours or weeks, or months you feel like this? To borrow a term from my wife and her knitting friends, they call it “frogging”. That refers to when you knit row after row after row and suddenly realize that you messed up 20 rows ago and have to rip all those bad rows…
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