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The Way Home
udithawix / Foter / CC BY As Christians, our lives are a journey, a journey towards home. It’s no accident that world literature is filled with the concept of the journey – everything from The Odyssey to stories in Grimm’s Fairy Tales to The Lord of the Rings. The great journeys in the Bible include Abraham and Moses, and also Paul’s missionary journeys. We all should think about these great journeys, and compare them to our own journeys home. And what is our final home, our destination? Heaven. You should start with a reminder of Who is with us on our Journey, and I was listening to Tina Turner last…
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Dissertation Done!
I am EXTREMELY relieved to announce that I finished my dissertation for my Doctorate of Ministry. I UPS’d it this morning — 5 notebooks worth for my reviewing committee, the box weighed a ton. Now I have to wait to see if they’ll grant me the degree or not! That process will take several more months but I am very happy that I have come this far.
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Your Most Important Goal-Setting Activity
Question: What is your most important goal setting activity? Answer: Your friendship with God! In terms of pure goal setting, Christian goal setting shares the same techniques as secular goal setting. There is nothing wrong with that: Christians don’t operate their cars differently from non-Christians, they order off menus the same way, and they take the same medicines when they’re sick. Goal setting, like cars, restaurants and health, simply works along similar lines. But Christian goal setting is a great deal more than simply meeting objectives, because as Christians we set our goals within the context of 1) our relationship with the Risen Christ and 2) our God-given life purpose.…