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Thoughts of God from the Oregon Coast

My family and I just got home from a two-week adventure in the Northwest. We spent the first week vacationing our way out to Portland for a speaking engagement.  We camped at Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, stayed with friends in Boise, and spent three days in a beach house on the Oregon Coast (Gleneden Beach to [...]

Are you focused on what will last?

Am I focused on what is going to last? If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now you know I love to ask questions to get you thinking…  Here is one that I have been asking myself for a few months now.  Am I focused on what is going to last? It’s often [...]

What happend to the holiness culture?

I ask, “Where has the holiness culture gone?” Maybe the better question is, “Will it ever return?”

Busyness “the problem” we LOVE to admit we have!

Just 10 more min on this project then I’ll go to bed, just one more episode of my favorite show, a little bit more time on Facebook, just one more article in the local newspaper, as soon as I finish watching the local news… Busyness is a plague in our country, we ALL deal with [...]

A Little Bit More…

You’re as happy as your going to be with or without. It does not come from getting more, or having what you want, it comes from being satisfied and finding happiness in what God has blessed you with now!

Can you succeed and still love God?

I believe that monetary wealth doesn’t have anything to do with success, and things like peace, rather than wealth should be used to define success. Ask a person with money but no peace if they are happy and satisfied, if they answer honestly, they will never say they are happy.

Is worry eating you alive?

Is worry eating you alive?   Do you lay awake at night trying to figure out how to make it all work…   Do you often look back fondly to when “things were easy” and when you didn’t have the worry you have now?     Being worried about stuff, worried about things that are totally [...]

Slow DOWN – life will keep on going even if your late to that meeting…

For the last couple weeks I have been writing about  things I have learned that help me get a TON of stuff done each day.  I really believe in the stuff I write about, I’m not gonna talk about it it if I don’t think its valuable and useful for someone else. I was stopped [...]

Hey! Are you dissatisfied? Part II

So my last post was talking about what I feel is one of the biggest problem in our culture today. The problem of dissatisfaction. Even if you don’t see this as a problem, it would still be hard to argue that it doesn’t exist in a significant way.  The question ISN’T is there a problem, [...]

Hey! Are you dissatisfied? If you said NO, are you sure??

Hey!  Are you dissatisfied?  Internally conflicted? No? Really, are you sure?…  Most of us when asked will answer a quick ‘nope’ without even a seconds thought.  Trouble is, we (me included) are almost always not actually satisfied with life. Let’s face it, our entire society is built around the principal of gaining the attention of [...]

What would you do if you had more time?

What’s the one thing you wish you could do, but don’t have enough time. Take an art class, write a book, learn a language, create that scrapbook of your family vacation, heck even just clean our your garage!  You know what the IT is, in fact, I bet the second you read the question “What’s [...]

Man of Sorrows

Phillip was born July 9, 1838 near Rome, PA. As many of his peers were, including the President, Abraham Lincoln…