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Posts Tagged ‘future’

Three People

Our lives are not about us.
Three encounters on Monday proved to me, once again, that my life is not my own. Frankly, your life is not your own. We are to be servants. Sometimes it requires a jolt of pure opportunity and force to rip us from our comfort zones. [...]

Underground Idea People

There’s a sort of people whom God made specifically to challenge the ideals of a former ‘best we could do.’ There is a brother and sisterhood of idea-folk. They think hard of ways to improve the mundane and important things in life.
These people aren’t well understood. They are [...]

Wins for 2009…

Sure, we’re thirteen days into 2009, but it’s taken a bit of time to refine our list of goals (or what a win would look like) for the year. Obviously, it’s good to have goals, but only if you’re going to do the work and make the sacrifices to accomplish them. Take them seriously. [...]

Purple Cow

I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s work of art over the past few weeks.
What has really grabbed me is that many people feel as if they don’t have the time to be totally remarkable. The only way a business or organization will succeed in the future is by embracing and amplifying [...]

Explode, Ideas, Explode

One idea can change the world.
What if we all had an idea opportunity quotient?
Imagine it like this…..
If your ideas looked like people… your idea opportunity quotient (or IOQ) might like a waiting room…. maybe a maternity ward waiting room. Perhaps it is full of anxious fathers and family members… ready to celebrate something wonderful. [...]

questions re: abortion

I have some questions:
(these are honest. No unintelligent comments)

Why is abortion acceptable?

How can we be more compassionate to people who have had abortions, while still not approving of future abortions?

is the debate too much about what we approve or disapprove of, rather than what God approves of?

Does it matter about the battle between church [...]

new awestruck video

breathing!

 
We are breathing.  That’s about all we know.  We are excited about our new steps out into God’s great world.  It is definitely breath-taking!    I really am wondering what God is up to.  
We, as humans, want to know the future.  God is up in his perch atop a telephone pole and He can see [...]