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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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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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In Defense of Strays

Steve S. — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:17:38 +0000

â€œSo the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.â€ (Genesis 2:20) Weâ€™ve got a cat named â€˜Babyâ€™. Let me back up. Weâ€™ve got four cats, six dogs, somewhere around fifty fish (the kind you feed, not the kind that feed you), and weâ€™re […]

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Groundhog Day

Steve S. — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:32:02 +0000

â€œI do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it […]

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â€˜Enoughâ€™ is an Illusion

Steve S. — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:39:44 +0000

â€œLook at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds themâ€ (Matthew 6:26) Of all the times Iâ€™ve asked God to help me or to provide something for me, I donâ€™t remember ever asking Him for someone I can help or […]

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The Five Covenants of God

Steve S. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:07:20 +0000

Tithing still remains a controversial issue in the church, even though I straightened everything out two weeks ago. Boy, I wish more people would read this letter. Amidst the many comments I received from â€œForget About Tithingâ€ was one from T___. â€œâ€¦ I did read what you said about tithing but it has been pounded […]

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The Cost of Being Perfect

Steve S. — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:03:53 +0000

“Jesus answered, â€˜If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come follow me.'” (Matthew 19:21) Hmmm … How about just being good? How much does that cost? The passage at the top of this letter comes from a conversation Jesus […]

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Discovering Oil in Israel

Steve S. — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:21:00 +0000

PURPOSEVol. 2, Issue 25June 29, 2008The Great Treasure Huntâ€œâ€˜But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home. I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plo...

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Money Part 3

Steve S. — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:31:00 +0000

Purpose Vol. 2 Issue 14 April 7, 2008 The weekly newsletter of True Potential Publishing Money Part 3 Thanks for your patience while I was away. Elaine and I were out all of last week at an â€œequipping the saintsâ€ conference. It wasnâ€™t really named â€œequipping the saints,â€ but you know what I mean. It […]

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