I took the Personality Patterns assessment, and my top four were: Creative, Intellectual, Innovative & Introspective. I don’t usually like personality assessments because in my experience they have been used to limit instead of enhance relationship. This seems like it could be helpful to expand relationships. Creative You are good at solving problems, coming upContinue reading “Personality Patterns”
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Worth It
Today I am tired. Partly because I took my brother in law to the airport at 4:30 am. But also because yesterday was a busy day at Creekside. We had 5 baptisms, a baby dedication and a BBQ. So we had a packed day. Saturday I learned how to set-up the baptismal. It’s not fun,Continue reading “Worth It”
Great perspective
Read the whole post here. This is part of the dialogue between John Chrysostom (347-407 AD)and Empress Eudoxia: “You cannot banish me, for this world is my Father’s house.” “But I will kill you,” said the empress. “No, you cannot, for my life is hid with Christ in God,” said John. “I will take awayContinue reading “Great perspective”
Sermon from Sunday
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Yesterday all my troubles seemed so . . .
Right in my face. I think it’s easy to memorialize the years or yesterfar. I would bet that the problems we faced in the past felt just as big as the problems we are facing now. They’re not as big because we have already overcome them. So now we are on to the next challenge.Continue reading “Yesterday all my troubles seemed so . . .”
what are you afraid of?
All my life, I’ve been told that I’m a funny person. And I like making people laugh, but I have never been successful at writing jokes. I am afraid of trying to be funny and failing. I want to overcome this fear, and I want to do a comedy open-mic. Just writing that sentence scaresContinue reading “what are you afraid of?”
Rad Library
This is Neal Gaiman’s Library. I love the look of it.
Is Social Media a Fad
Pastors who Hate
Sometimes I read the news and want to go smite people. Usually the smiting is directed at pastors who do dumb, horrible things or say ridiculous things and put Jesus’ name on their statements. It’s a good thing that I’m not God and don’t have any kind of smiting ability. I get so frustrated whenContinue reading “Pastors who Hate”
Esther Sermon
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