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Practice the present moment

Steve S. — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 13:29:00 +0000

Begin with the End in Mind

Steve S. — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:20:46 +0000

Obedience vs. Proactivity

Steve S. — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:00:01 +0000

The Definition of Success

Steve S. — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:12:04 +0000

For the last two weeks Iâ€™ve been promising you twelve keys to a truly successful life; but all Iâ€™ve shared with you are two commandments from the Bible. â€œLove the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.â€ and â€œLove your neighbor as yourself.â€ I also […]

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How Big is Your Neighborhood?

Steve S. — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:25:45 +0000

Last week I gave you the number one rule for a truly successful life: â€œâ€˜Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.â€ Hereâ€™s rule number two: â€œLove your neighbor as yourself.â€ Itâ€™s an old one. I bet youâ€™ve heard it already â€¦ but do […]

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The One Thing

Steve S. — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:28:49 +0000

Remember the movie â€œCity Slickersâ€? Three guys facing middle age and accompanying crises, wanting to reassess their lives, embark on a two week cattle drive â€“ a sort of hyper-dude-ranch, real cowboy experience for â€˜city slickersâ€™. During the drive, one city slicker, â€˜Mitchâ€™ rides along with tough as nails cowboy â€˜Curlyâ€™, and Curly shares with […]

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Why Am I Doing This?

Steve S. — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:52:39 +0000

â€œBefore I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart â€¦â€ (Jeremiah 1:5) I missed sending out a â€˜Purpose Weeklyâ€™ letter last week. Elaine and I went away for four days so I could write â€¦ ironic, isnâ€™t it? Thereâ€™s a book Iâ€™ve been putting off for […]

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One Mustard Seed

Steve S. — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:14:22 +0000

â€œWhat is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branchesâ€ (Luke 13:18) Elaine and I are going on a little camping […]

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Jesus and the Third Grader

Steve S. — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:13:31 +0000

Last week I told you about my friend Roger and that Roger’s son, Eric, died as child, unexpectedly. That was twenty-five years ago; Roger hasn’t ‘gotten over it’ but he has learned to live with it. The promise that has allowed him to come to terms with the tragedy is that he knows he will, […]

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When a Child Dies

Steve S. — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:18:54 +0000

I like to think I’m pretty good with words, but a few times in my life I’ve been speechless. At those moments anything I could have thought to say would have been less than required. Words of advice or comfort or empathy would have been wooden and miserably weak. There wasn’t a thing I could […]

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Wes Smith in Haiti … the rest of the story

Steve S. — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:01:14 +0000

I hadn’t heard from Wes Smith in a while. Remember Wes? I wrote about him and his Haiti rescue team deploying do the earthquake ravaged island right after the tragic event. You can review the posts here: “Haiti Relief, January 17” and “Haiti Update, January 18” Haiti team member John Fussle commented on the follow […]

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Running with the Wind

Steve S. — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:04:00 +0000

â€œCome to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.Â For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.â€ Matthew 11:28-30 I’m a […]

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A Perfect Day

Steve S. — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:01:18 +0000

â€œSee that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.ï»¿ â€œWhat do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on […]

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Everybody loves the Promised Land but nobody likes the trip

Steve S. — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:52:19 +0000

â€œThe vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud.â€ (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy) Iâ€™ve been to Israel a half dozen times in the last few years. Youâ€™d think it would get old after so many visits â€¦ it doesnâ€™t. Thereâ€™s something about Israel, the Promised Land, thatâ€™s different from any […]

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Time Travel

Steve S. — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:49:40 +0000

â€œI tell you, now is the time of Godâ€™s favor, now is the day of salvation.â€ (2 Corinthians 6:2) I remember watching a movie as a boy; â€œThe Time Machineâ€. The movie, I later discovered, was loosely based on the H.G Wells book of the same name. The movie version has been remade a couple […]

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Haiti Update

Steve S. — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:36:35 +0000

Wes Smith (who I wrote about yesterday) Filed an update last night and today. They’re on the ground and working! I wish the big guys could move as fast. Please, please, please, keep Wes’s team in your prayers. Here’s the update: January 18 update: Efficiency, Speed, and Simplicity: The Haitian believers at Lloyd’s mission have […]

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Haiti Relief

Steve S. — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:42:49 +0000

On Tuesday January 12, at 4:53 PM local time a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, its epicenter 15 miles west-southwest of the city, struck Port-Au-Prince Haiti. By now you you know that. On Saturday Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, Haiti’s interior minister told Reuters. “We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies. We anticipate there will be between 100,000 […]

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A Pottery Lesson

Steve S. — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:17:16 +0000

â€œLike clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand â€¦â€ Jeremiah 18:6 Iâ€™ve been reading in Jeremiah for the last few weeks â€“ boy is it a tough book. A lot of folks avoid Jeremiah; they think itâ€™s too difficult to understand, too depressing and too long. Theyâ€™re right â€¦ […]

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Gifts of the Magi

Steve S. — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:54:32 +0000

By O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times […]

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Explaining Heaven to Bears

Steve S. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:13:15 +0000

â€œThe man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.â€ (1 Corinthians 2:14) At True Potential Publishing, weâ€™ve been checking into making all of our printed books available in e-book format as […]

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One Oil Drum at a Time

Steve S. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:22:41 +0000

â€œIn your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed.â€ (Exodus 15:13) I once heard a story about two young men who made a goal of riding through the Sahara Desert on motorcycles. There arenâ€™t a lot of street signs in the Sahara and this was long before the days of GPS devices. […]

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“ye are gods” Part 2

Steve S. — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:04:55 +0000

â€œHow you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, â€˜I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount […]

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Ye Are Gods?

Steve S. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:59:37 +0000

â€œThey know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.Â â€œI said, â€˜You are â€œgodsâ€; you are all sons of the Most High.â€™ But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler.â€ (Psalm 82:5-7) I read Dan Brownâ€™s new book The Lost […]

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The La-Z-Boy

Steve S. — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:03:36 +0000

By Jenny Lou Jones With the birth of our first child, Lance told me that heâ€™d help me rock our new baby to sleep if only Iâ€™d agree to buy a La-Z-Boy.Â His argument was that all decent and caring fathers had one thing in commonâ€”a big, boxy wad of material that calls itself a […]

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Cracks in the Sidewalk

Steve S. — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:07:49 +0000

By Jenny Lou Jones During my elementary years, I walked home after school.Â Â Well, it was more like I lollygagged and meandered, especially down the big hill that ended at my house.Â That last perilous slope was littered with cracks in the sidewalk that I had to avoid to keep my motherâ€™s back intact.Â Where […]

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