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But not a personal brag about me. This is about my father, Ron, who is a consultant and expert on human behavior in the workplace. Through the past 17 years, he has helped major companies reduce employee turnover and improve communication between bosses and the workers they supervise. Oh, and he’s an author. No Jerks…
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Pitter Patter, Plop Drop Hear the voice of the water Catch it now, ‘fore it will stop And leave us a desert again It rained hard last night at my house in North Texas. A region that normally sees 36.14 inches of rain each year has seen about 17 inches this one. By this time…
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You know how computers and printers have a queue for print jobs, you know, to process electronic orders? Well, the more I get to know myself (that looks strange) I’m thinking my brain has a “thought queue,” a processing center for various thoughts and opinions. Every day five or six major thoughts come to my…
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When I was traveling through Colorado and New Mexico in late July/early August I kept coming across the most fascinating signs, all of which seemed to be pointing to some impending doom. Kind of like the apocalyptic “signs” of Revelation. It made for… umm…. confident traveling! As a point of review, here were the first…
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I just had a cool conversation with my littler sister Heather that got my mind stirring. Well, actually she was interviewing me for a class at seminary and, as usual, I did most of the talking, but my mind was stimulated anyway. So I pulled off the road (I was driving), grabbed some chicken strips…
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It’s a funny thing, this thing called “time.” Sometimes it seems to move at lightning speed. Other times it doesn’t seem to move at all. Last week at this time I was airborne, flying with four others home from Miami after an amazing 8-day trip to Haiti. It feels like I just got back. It…
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I just got back from my first Psalms class tonight. Well, it’s actually the third class session but the first one I was able to attend (Haiti). This semester I decided to take a class on Psalms taught by my pastor, Steve, and his wife Darlene. It’s tough to go from working all day at…
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Thanks to everyone who prayed for myself and the Haiti mission team from Crossroads. We got back last night, landing at DFW on the seventh flight of our 8-day trip to the tip of the Haitian peninsula, where our sister church in Chambellan lives out the gospel in the midst of difficult circumstances. I was…
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I just wanted to drop everyone a quick note to let you know that tomorrow morning I and the CBC team will be flying off to Miami and, the next day, to Haiti. I’m not sure how much blogging I’ll do on Growing Young during the trip but I’ll definitely be posting on our church…
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Today I wrote out my sermon for this weekend’s church service in Chambellan, Haiti. Preparing remarks to be read (by yours truly) in another culture, in another language, is a real test of verbal skill. I think I threw out about 60 percent if my English vocabulary because I wasn’t sure if my words would…
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