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  • A Good Name. Proverbs 22:1 — “A good name is to be… | by Tom Sims , Cultivator of Big Ideas | Sep, 2024 | Medium

    Read on Medium Attention to the details, answering complaints in a timely, courteous, and forthright manner, and going the extra mile will all contribute toward a positive association with your name in the minds of the masses. Gone are the days when the only bad publicity is no publicity. Negative press is negative except in…

  • I Want to Be Useful

    Grant, Oh God, a searching assessment of my capacity and a dedication of that capacity to your glory and the good of others.

  • Open, Loosen, Use -Ears, Tongues, Lives –Mark 7, 31-37, Photo by Putz …

  • Keep Up

    We are going to keep up or be left far behind. If we are going to keep up, we are going to have to do so with intention and purpose. The older we are, the more we are going to have to work at it. If we don't do this, we will lose our influence…

  • Man of Sorrows

    Donatello, Imago Pietatis, 1449–50, bronze relief from the high altar of the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua Weeping Savior "Jesus wept." John 11:36 No two words are as precious as these. The Lord of glory so identified with our suffering that He came to weep with us – and those tears led directly through…

  • God Leads His Dear Children Along

    Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber Tenzing Norgay, 1953 This beautiful rendition of the beloved hymn brought my heart to Acts 14. 1."It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God." 2. "When they arrived, they called the church together and related all that God had done with them, and how he had…

  • Be Opened, Your Ears, Your Tongue, Your Heart, Your Mind, Your Hands, Your Life!

    Photo by Putz Adrian on Unsplash Mark 7:31-37 Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went by way of Sidon toward the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech, and they begged him to lay his hand…

  • You Have Turned My Sorrow to Dancing – Psalm 30 – Tom Sims

  • Quotation Marks to Mark Your Day

    "We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them. – Oswald chambers, "Shade of His Hand" "It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what…

  • Solomon, Compromised Lover

    King Solomon with his wives. Illustrated in 1668 by Giovanni Battista Venanzi. Solomon was attracted to women and to power. He could get both by marrying both. He found a way to satisfy his desire for what Richard Foster identified as our 3 most vulnerable lusts: money, sex, and power. He could accumulate exotic women, their…