Leadership

Why It is Important to Deal with the Addictions in Our Lives… NOW!!

Our pastor has been pounding it pretty unmercifully recently in church… the need to remove sin from our lives and getting closer to God. His point being that when we have sin in our lives, we are separated from God by allowing that sin to stay in our lives. As this is a subject that he has […]

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Are You Going to Be Free or Are You Going to Be a Slave?

Have you read the headlines recently? We are living in a world in conflict now and the answer to the question above is going to be determined by what side of the fence that you are standing on. And there is no sitting on that fence… So here is how the sides of the fence […]

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What Are You Doing With What You Have, While Wanting and Waiting to Get More?

Do you think that is a weird question? Read it again… “What are you doing with what you have, while wanting and waiting to get MORE?” Let’s take a look at the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters again. There was a 21 year old girl who was complaining that she was in debt for over $100,000 […]

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If Not YOU, Then Who….

I am watching the events unfolding with these “Occupy”… protests and I find them quite interesting. I don’t get it. Maybe I am just thick when it comes to these types of things. We have students protesting to have their student loans, removed. They signed the paperwork for these loans so they can become educated […]

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What Values Do You LIve Your Life By?

What values do you live your life by? This is an interesting question… And one that will ultimately determine your level of success or your failure. We are seeing a lot of strife happening all around us, currently in New York, with the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and in Boston with the so called “Days […]

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DEMANDING Change, Is This a Philosophy That Has Ever Worked?

I find it interesting, we are currently having people being arrested in New York and Boston for getting in the way of traffic in the “Occupy Wall Street” or what is also being called the “Days of Rage”. I look at this with great interest because I have never seen this work out in anyone’s […]

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Are You Breaking the Rules?

I like to pay close attention to what is going on in the world, and with the things that happening right now, I feel that we are going to be facing some very challenging times. Let’s take a look: ——— We have union leaders that are financially breaking companies, as well as state and local […]

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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going…

It’s interesting, that statement has been around for a long time. It is a quote attributed to Joseph Kennedy and it is also said to be an old Scottish proverb. It is also a song that Billy Ocean sang in the 80’s or early 90’s. Yesterday, I wrote a post about the problems that we […]

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Are YOU Creating the Problems in Your Life?

Life is a journey, it is filled with ups and downs. Some times are good and some times are bad, it is just the way it is. What do you do when times are not that pleasant? The answer to that, I believe, will in some way determine how long we spend in that valley […]

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Being Content with What You Have While in Pursuit of What You Want…

In today’s sermon, my pastor had a great message and it revolved around contentment and he said that nothing on this earth will ever make us content. We spend our days trying to fill the void in our lives with, things, possessions and wishing that others would do things differently in order for us to […]

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