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Care to Lead a Blameless Life I will be careful to lead a blameless life— when will you come to me? I will conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart. –New International Version Psalm 101:2 Here is a fellow that had adjusted his thinking toward God and is already making music to…
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We place this condition on superpostion. Consider the state of the innocent cat. The cat has not harmed you, and yet in its crate Until the lids lifted you toggle its fate. You, the observer, hold all the aces. You will determine its curses or graces Is it now dead or is it alive? Will…
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Contentment is not contained in wealth. You can be content whether you are wealthy or poor. Contentment is an attitude, choice, and way of thinking. We gain it in the pursuit of values that transcend wealth You have a relationship with money, whether you are aware of it or not. You may think there is…
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“Tom, you’re not useless. We can always use you as a bad example.” Have you ever seen a want add for a bad example?—————HELP WANTEDBadly flawed, underqualified, low-motivated, mid-level manager to take responsibility for counter-intuitive training and institutionalized scape-goating for corporate inadequacies. No-experience needed. Apply in person. First in line gets the job. Tenure and…
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In a World of Manure, You Might as Well Make Fertilizer Setting the Agenda: Reflections on Jeremiah 10:1–16 Part of the problem we have is an agenda — who sets the agenda, and how we live with the agenda we’ve chosen. I think that is part of what’s going on in Jeremiah 10:1–16. You cannot read Jeremiah in…
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It’s The Balm by Tom Sims Read on Substack https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js
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I have two thoughts on behavioral checklists. One is about how central they were to the Wesleyan revival and the Holy Club at Oxford. The list was long and the accountability strong and it resulted in Methodism. The other was the old Baptist Sunday School 9-point record system on our offering envelopes: 1. Did you…
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Stuff I Think You Need Because it burned a whole in my soul First, God speaks: Exodus 23:1-9 “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with the wicked to act as a malicious witness. You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not…
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“One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.” — Exodus 2:11 It was a day of awakening for Moses. It was not his best day, but it was a turning point out of which would…
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I am consumed by this tonight and often, Our legacy is what it is. It never benefits us or anyone else to forget it or sweep it under the rug. There were four precious little girls who came to church to spend time with Jesus who stepped into his presence that day. I missed a…
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