Category: Empowerment
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What Would Pedro Do?
On the steering wheel of my truck there is a cover with the letters WWJD on it. As most of you know, that stands for “What Would Jesus Do?”. For a long time you could find all sorts of new WWJD merchandise everywhere. Maybe it was because some people thought the world was about to end and…
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Being Who You Are
I remember the first time I heard cuss words. I was seven years old and had just recently moved to a neighborhood called Chesterfield Heights in Norfolk, VA. Until moving there I had been pretty sheltered from children outside of my family and none of us cussed. To this day, unless we are really trying…
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There Are Two Ways To Burn Your Candle
There are two ways to burn a candle. Americans are strange. Despite our relative prosperity, we are one of the most emotionally depressed cultures on the planet. It’s been said that one of the main causes for our mental state is that we try to cram more activities into a 24 hour day than what…
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Being “Normal” Versus Being Natural
All my life I have struggled with being “normal”. No, you wouldn’t find me with my Fruit o’ the Looms on my head singing Girls Just Wanna Have Fun or anything like that. I just rarely did what I was expected to do. Expectations indicate having some preconceived notion of how events should unfold in some future…
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Facing My DEMONs
Ever since becoming vocal about my ministry I’ve been coming face to face with my prior acts of denial. Some people may call it the skeletons coming out of the closet or facing your demons. I chose to use the term facing my demons specifically because it allowed me to come up with this nifty…
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I Sing Because I’m Happy
Someone I follow on Twitter posted a quote that said, “Birds don’t sing because they have an answer. They sing because they have a song.” I have never heard that one before, but it struck a chord with me and immediately led me to think about my younger brother Tony. As long as I’ve known…
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Evil Is Laziness
In writing this post, I am making the assumption that most of you who visit this blog have made the choice to deliberately investigate your life and are open to going as deep as possible to know yourself. I will also assume that you believe that it is possible to know yourself as your Creator knows you much the…
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You Are Not Your Thoughts
I’m fat. I’m skinny. I’m pretty. I’m ugly. I’m in style. I’m out of style. No one is looking at me. Everyone is looking at me. I’m special. I’m just like everyone else. I’m popular. I’m unpopular. And the list goes on and on. In fact, it’s been said that the average human brain processes…
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More Addiction
One of my daughter’s first words was “more”. Anytime she wants anything that she doesn’t know the word for–especially food–she screams, “more, more, more.” On one side I think it’s cute, but on the other hand, I’m thinking, “Oh no. It’s started.” Since time began human beings have been fascinated with the idea of more. …
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