Category: Earthly Treasures
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I Work For Your Organization. And You Can’t Stop Me.
In Mandarin there is a phrase that goes, 水涨船高 (shuǐzhǎngchuángāo)–literally water rise boat high–which basically comes down to the often expressed wisdom that we hear in American economics, “a rising tide lifts all boats”. A lot of people attribute the saying to John F. Kennedy. But it turns out he got it from his speechwriter,…
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Where is Your Treasure?
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.…
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Love the Players, Hate the Game
Many years ago, a business consultant, who specialized in military transitions, took an interest in me. She started a conversation with me as I waited for a friend in the Family Support Center of Andrews Air Force Base. Part way through the conversation she jumped in and said, “INTJ or INTP”. Being unfamiliar with the…
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You Can Only Go One Way At A Time
I would have to say that in my experience, the hardest vocation one can take upon himself or herself in this world is that of loving God completely. Of course, I tell myself that I love God and God’s ways. Daily, I crucify (figuratively) myself in my mind in an effort to see just where…
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How Certain Material “Miracles” Become Distractions
Nothing used to annoy me more than the preachers of the Prosperity Gospel. I felt like they were turning Christ’s message of faith into something you could find on an infomercial. It seemed like money and “blessings” were the only things on their minds and like any other pyramid system it was the people on…
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Get Rich or Try Dying
Picture this. You’re watching a commercial for luxury cruise travel. It shows happy rich people clinking together champagne glasses, dancing, and dining on the finest foods. The ad implores you not to settle for less. After all, when you travel, you deserve the best. You start trying to project the image of yourself into the…
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F.E.A.R. the Truth
In this video I do my best to to put into words the frustration that I am experiencing in this moment realizing that I do not have the words to convey the Love I believe is Present for each and every one of us. When I look at the world today I see people living for the…
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Winning and Losing
Matthew 13:12 – For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Have you ever had dreams of winning it big? Wow! Imagine what you could do with more. It would be awesome. If you…
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7 Reasons Why You Should Never Time Travel
Well, for any of you who have read this blog in the past, you know that I haven’t written anything new in several months. I have made attempts, but was unable to complete any because I was too busy time traveling. Now I know you might be thinking this is no excuse. I mean after all, if I have the…
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Under Pressure
Last week I saw this headline on Yahoo! that these brothers from the UK have done a remix of Ice Ice Baby and Under Pressure. I’m in one of my distraction modes, so I click on it. Out comes these twins with these high top hairdos with back up dancer’s straight out of the 90’s. …
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