The hole in our gospel

100 Crashing Jetliners

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The Hole in our Gospel Reading Program—Week Eleven  Chapter Nine: One Hundred Crashing Jetliners “One Hundred Jetliners Crash, Killing 26,500.” That’s the context that Mr. Stearns used to help us visualize the statistics. When one jetliner crashes, killing hundreds, it makes the front page of newspapers around the world.  However,…

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What's your "style" for connecting with God?

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Did you know you have a worship “style” that helps you connect more easily with God? Some people don’t realize that. They think that we all must approach God the same way, using the same prayers, disciplines, and postures of worship. In reality, each of us has a worship “style”…
The hole in our gospel

The Hole in our Gospel Reading Program--Week Ten

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Chapter Eight: The Greatest Challenge of the New Millennium How rich do you feel? Do you feel like you’re in the upper tier of the world’s wealthiest people? According to Richard Stearns’ quote from President Carter’s 2002 speech, “Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than…
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My Buddhist goal for the summer

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I just finished Phil Jackson’s basketball memoir, Eleven Rings: the Soul of Success, and in it he espoused the Buddhist philosophy of learning to live in the moment. According to Phil (who probably knows a thing or two about basketball), it is essential for successful basketball teams to stay highly…
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Amber Rocks!

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You know how we parents are…can’t stop bragging…we even do it in formats like our blogs 🙂 Here is a pic of Amber and me after her school play last week. She was a “10.” Amber’s dear friend, Lilly Copley,  emerged as a budding star as well.