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A thought by Leonard Sweet, (2012-03-13) from his book, Viral: How Social Networking Is Poised to Ignite Revival (p. 78). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition. The answer I believe is, “no.”   It never has stopped us before and it won’t stop us now.   Then you might ask, “What do you mean?   Has someone always had the ability to know my secrets?”   That really seems to be the problem.   Yes there is now greater potential for Big Brother or Little Sister or whoever to listen in to our conversations.   I mean if you combine video surveillance with secret listening technology that monitors cell-phone traffic, e-mail communication, and your location, which is announced by your cell-phone signal you cannot hide.   And that bothers so many people.   But God has always known where you are, what you are doing or saying and He even knows what you are thinking and that hasn’t changed our behavior.   We still do everything we want with no thought that someone is watching. So why does

A thought by Leonard Sweet, (2012-03-13) from his book, Viral: How Social Networking Is Poised to Ignite Reviva l (p. 69). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition. Have you found that to be true?   We are in the middle of Spring Training in baseball.   I have lived both in Phoenix, Arizona and Seminole, Florida two different times in my life and I love Spring Training.   To me the enjoyable time of Spring Training is not the games but all the other stuff, all of the working on the small stuff, the fundamentals.   It is the small stuff that when put together in the right way make a winning team.   It’s throwing the ball to the right base, it’s the pitcher covering first base, it’s being able to lay down a bunt, it’s hitting behind the runner on a hit and run and so many other small things. The same is true in life.   It’s starting your day with a quiet time in the Bible and in prayer; it’s always telling the truth; it’s being faithful even when your spouse isn’t around; it’s m

A thought by Leonard Sweet, (2012-03-13) from his book, Viral: How Social Networking Is Poised to Ignite Reviva l (p. 64). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition. Here is the key, Jesus is to be the leader, we are to be the follower.   That is what He taught but we have been consumed by our culture to believe the opposite. I mean there are some who teach that if we do a series of steps we will get God to give us what we want.   But here is the problem of that. Does a follower go to the leader to get them to give them what the follower wants?   No it is the other way around. Somehow we have gotten this in the wrong order.   What does the leader want, what does the leader teach?   Now Jesus all through the Gospels is telling His disciples what His Kingdom is all about.   Now we need to really understand what a kingdom is.   For one it is not a democracy.   There are no elections in a kingdom.   A kingdom has a ruler/leader/king and it has followers.   His kingdom has Him as the

A thought by Andy Stanley, (2010-10-19) from his book, The Grace of God (Kindle Location 116). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition . I was sitting in my spot at Starbucks this morning with my table all organized and a man came up and asked if he could sit in the other chair.   There was no other place to sit so I begrudgingly said, “yes” so he sat down and started using his half of the table.   Now that kind of griped me so I wasn’t really very friendly or I should say very gracious to him.   He had invaded my space without me asking him to. I didn’t respond much better the whole time he was there.   In other words, i blew it in being gracious to him.   My pride and my feeling of being inconvenienced got in the way of my being gracious. I went home and started getting ready to move some stuff over to our storage unit and I carried it down to the car, put it into the car, ready to run up and get some more stuff and then realized that I had locked my keys in the car to the ca

A thought by Les Parrott, (2012-08-02) from his book, You're Stronger Than You Think: The Power to Do What You Feel You Can't (p. 88). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition. We really do need each other in good times but especially in difficult times.   The good times are made better when we have someone to share them with and the same with difficult times.   Now the answer to this is not whether you are married or single.   There are so many lonely married people and there are also so many single people that aren’t.     It is your feelings of loneliness that matter. Now the fact may be that you have been married for 20+ years or the fact may be that you have never been married.   The fact does not control the feeling.   Fact, God is everywhere so you are never alone.   Fact, there are people all around you who want to be your friend.    Fact, there are people all around you who need you to be their friend.   But those facts do not control your feelings.   What

A thought by John C Maxwell, (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 32). Center Street. Kindle Edition. I was sitting the other day with a friend who wanted to talk about blogging.   She was excited about doing it; she even said she had six  set up.   So I asked when she was going to start and she said, “Oh I’m not ready yet.   It has to be perfect.” I was walking the other day to my Starbucks for my morning coffee and I walked by the Pasadena Playhouse and I saw that they were having auditions all that day for the play, Sleepless in Seattle.   As soon as I got to Starbucks I told a barista there about it.   I knew she had moved from Virginia to LA to become an actress.    I thought she would be excited and jump at the opportunity but she said, “I can’t do that.   I’m not ready.”   And I thought about the potential contacts she could have had if she would have just tried and she might have even gotten the part.

A thought by Les Parrott, (2012-08-02) from his book, You're Stronger Than You Think: The Power to Do What You Feel You Can't (p. 72). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition. There is something to be said about self-awareness that shows us that we may need to change some areas in our self.   I had just turned on my laptop to start writing and looked away and then looked back and it was shutting down.   I then realized that is was updating some program and it needed to shut down for a moment in order for the change to happen.   Last night as I was plugging in my iPhone before going to bed I saw that it had a couple of apps that needed to be updated.   So I took the time to do it.   The laptop and the smart phone have within them the capacity to get better. But we as humans believe that we have arrived and don’t need to change.   I mean we don’t even want to be honest enough to believe we may have weaknesses and therefore need to do something about them.   But th