Translating Messages From Heads To Hearts
Some thoughts on Acts 25 Festus takes over from Felix as the new Procurator over the Roman province of Judea and finds that Felix left a prisoner named Paul for him to deal with. The problem is that Festus has no idea what to do with Paul. The charges against him didn’t make any sense …
Ananias, the current High Priest had hired an attorney named Tertullus to bring charges against Paul for inciting riots, defiling the temple and preaching blasphemy. Captive to beliefs he’d held for his entire life, Ananias had never critically examined those beliefs in light of recently revealed truth, truth that could possibly reshape what he’d originally …
Believe me, you aren’t alone. There’s a lot of buzz about Sales Enablement in today’s marketplace. Marketing is clearly being challenged, but sales collateral is being scraped and refashioned from the ground up! Data from Hubspot makes it clear that most salespeople spend less than half their day selling. A blog called Seismic claims that …
There’s a constant flow of “new” data, which focuses on the myriad aspects and implementations of Appropriate Technology; it’s wonderful and creates hope. And when you live in the West, it is so easy to get excited about making an impact by utilizing these “new” systems or technologies. You know, it’s hard to figure out …
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I am the firstborn (in June of 1953) son of a proud and vocal racist, a man who claimed to be part of the original John Birch Society in Los Angeles. That “Society” was a far-right organization often linked with white supremacist rhetoric and anti-government agendas. As a Los Angeles Sheriff Deputy, dad often bragged …
“But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales— they love to cheat. Israel boasts, “I am rich! I’ve made a fortune all by myself! No one has caught me cheating! My record is spotless!”” Hosea 12:7-8 NLT “I took care of you in the wilderness, in that dry and thirsty land. …
It seems crazy that God would instruct one of His prophets to marry a whore, just to demonstrate what [our] unfaithfulness looks like. But He did. He told Hosea to marry Gomer, a prostitute. Why would He do that? It’s vile. To a man, it strikes at the very heart of his identity and self-worth. …
In today’s My Utmost For His Highest, Oswald Chambers demands we “Get Moving – Begin to Abide Now!” This sounds so counter-intuitive! “Get moving . . . Begin to abide now!” Chambers says we’re to “Abide in Me”— in intellectual matters, in money matters, in every one of the matters that make human life what …
Yep. I met this guy, well maybe not this exact guy, since this is a photo I got from the Bolsa Chica Conservancy trailer at Warner and PCH. But the one I met looked just like this one! I was on the trail that goes from the end of the Wintergarden Flood Channel north to …
I’m there. That place where men go to die. Where the thing they start to look forward to is pushing the shopping cart that holds their wife’s purse at Target. I’m not sure I can do it . . . Especially now that I’ve been forced into seclusion for over a year at the hand …