Being Transparent

God is Ready to Move

Date: September 23, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Book Reviews, Expectations, Relationship

I’ve read through more of The Last Arrow by Erwin McManus. In the part I recently read, he was talking about the prophet Elijah and the widow whose husband had died. She needed money to pay her debts and had nothing but a little oil. So, Elijah tells her to…

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Does Everyday Life Matter?

Date: September 15, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Consistency, Expectations, Faith

I just made it to the New Testament on my way through the Bible. It’s only taken me four years to get through the Old Testament in my Chronological Bible on top of my other books and studies. Not bad when you consider it took the Israelites 40 years in…

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Moving Past Your Past

Date: September 8, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Book Reviews, Consistency, Expectations

I’m just about done reading The Last Arrow by Erwin McManus. This has been a timely read for me and I wanted to share one part I found interesting. It’s something I think is very critical to our growth and we tend to take it lightly at times and overlook…

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Don’t Quit Too Soon!

Date: September 3, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Bible Study, Consistency, Expectations, Relationship

I’m currently reading the book The Last Arrow by Erwin McManus. The idea of the arrows is rooted in the encounter with King Joash and Elisha in the book of 2 Kings. Elisha instructs the king to strike the arrows on the ground and the king stops after three. Elisha…

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And, Now, We’re Moving On…

Date: August 25, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Friendship, Prayer, Relationship

This week we took our oldest daughter to college. It was a new experience for us; both exciting and weird. For those of you who have gone before us in this part of life, you might have a better word than weird. Unfortunately, I’m still in the process of processing…

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To Lead or Not to Lead…

Date: August 18, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Boundaries, Expectations, Simplify

I attended the Global Leadership Summit (GLS) this year for the first time where the GLS speakers talked about how we were all leaders. With leaders comes followers so, I was left to wonder how many leaders vs. followers are there? Is there a magic number of followers per leader?…

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How to Survive the Tundra

Date: August 1, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent

We’ve talked about seeing life and circumstances through a different point of view and how changing our perspectives can help tremendously. Then, we talked about walking through transitions in life and how life always seems to be changing. In all of our lives, we will have our ups and down,…

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Transitions in Life

Date: July 21, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Bible Study, Death, Expectations, Faith, Overwhelmed, Relationship, Stories

One of the pastors at our church recently preached on transitions in our lives. Our church is in the midst of a transition as we are looking for a new pastor. Then, the next morning, we found out about a dear gentleman in our church who died suddenly. A few…

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Need a New Point of View?

Date: July 7, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Expectations, Friendship, Overwhelmed

While in Arizona, we made our way to the bank to get some change for laundry. We were making small talk with the teller and she asked where we were going. We mentioned our destinations and told her the Grand Canyon was one of the highlights. To my amusement she…

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Celebrating Life!

Date: July 3, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Friendship, Prayer, Relationship, Simplify

Today is our final day of our 26-day trip in our RV. I literally woke up with a pit in my stomach just thinking about it coming to an end. It has been a joy and a privilege to spend this time together as a family. Our family of five…

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