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  • SOLUTIONS – Days 6-8 – Innovation and Intercession

    Days 6-7 – Reflecting on the journey so far leads me to believe that God has directed my heart toward these specific scriptures with purpose and precision. I did not plan down time from what I intended for my down time, but it has proven productive. Jell-O has to jell, pudding has to “pud,” and…

  • Solutions Journal – Day 5

    Day 5 – Trust and Test (Taking Risks) Faith is risky and trust is tried in the testing of our faith. If I don’t act on faith, it is probably not real faith. Real faith permeates everything and flavors my whole life. It seeps from the outside and oozes out from the inside. Deuteronomy 28…

  • Solutions Journal – Days 3 and 4

    Day 3 – Learn, Lean, Love From Deuteronomy 28 – The blessing of God, through obedience can be upon everything I put my hand to. This presupposes that I am putting my hand to those things that are in accordance with God’s purposes since I am obeying Him. It is the same principle at work as…

  • The Process

    I am secluded in the hills. For that reason, I do not have a prayer partner for the SOLUTIONS process through which I am leading my church. Therefore, I will make all of you my prayer partners and record my journal here. I share them because some of the concepts with which I grapple can…

  • Heading for the Hills

    Thanks to my friends Shelda and Hal Green and a very supportive church and wife, I am leaving today for a week-long personal retreat in the High Sierra where I will read, write, study, pray, and reflect. I have some major goals and minor goals. The major goal is to hear from God. The next…

  • Solutions

    Some of you read the sermon I posted last week on Romans 8 as it related to a financial crisis and mission recommitment in our church. Today, I am updating that theme in hopes that what we are working through may be an encouragment in ylour life and work. I call, it SOLUTIONS Deuteronomy 28:1-14…

  • Life in the Spirit = Adventure

    I have been preaching on the book of Romans for a while now. The first 7 chapters are filled with indictment. redemption, and ongoing struggle of people in the God movement with sin in their own live. I relate on every page. Chapter 8 takes a dramatic turn as Paul begins to describe life in…

  • Now, On With It

    Having resolved to finish my books, I have come to the time blocked out for that activity. Now I have choices. These are similar to some that you will be making with regard to your projects and goals today, so I will post them: 1) Initiate. 2) Procrastinate. 3) Renegotiate. If the schedule I have…

  • Decisions

    I have made a decision. It is actually the culmination of a constellation of decisions, but I have made it nevertheless. After a week and a half of writing nothing but sermons and short notes, I have come to the conclusion that I am going to finish at least two books that have been languishing…

  • New Amazon Store

    I have a new Amazon aStore: Pastor Tom’s Bookstore.