by marshal | May 15, 2014 | Lessons Learned, Priorities, Stewardship, Truth
It is more blessed to give than receive. (Acts 20:35 NIV) You must be kidding! Not only does the world encourage the accumulation of wealth, things, position and honors, it shouts its necessity. Yet Jesus suggests another way:Giving rather than...
by marshal | Mar 20, 2014 | Lessons Learned, Priorities, Stewardship
Back in the early 1990's I spent over two years studying The Sermon on the Mount. One could say I was a slow learner or that His lessons take a lifetime to learn. Jesus communicates issues of the heart that will identify me as a follower of His. What is truly in...
by marshal | Feb 28, 2013 | Lessons Learned, Stewardship
The conversation ends and I wonder to myself, "were we talking about the same subject or were we talking past each other?" More disconcerting are the occasions when I have no idea that I have talked past someone! The disciples found themselves in this same...
by marshal | Feb 21, 2013 | Lessons Learned, Stewardship, Truth
Atherosclerosis A hardening and narrowing of the arteries that is often the cause of heart attacks and stroke caused by high blood pressure, smoking and damage from lipids in the blood Spiritual Hardening of the Heart A resistance to the voice of God occurring when I...
by marshal | Oct 25, 2012 | Lessons Learned, Stewardship
I have never joyfully written a check for taxes. However, this is not a new phenomenon. I doubt the Egyptians enjoyed paying taxes on their cooking oil. The Greeks surely did not enjoy paying taxes to wage wars but amazingly received refunds when excess was raised....
by marshal | May 31, 2012 | Lessons Learned, Stewardship, Truth
I asked my wife, Pamela, "So how did I do on the telephone?" Her response pierced me to the heart. "Not so well if you are trying to follow Jesus." I had been on the telephone for three hours with airline personnel in the midst of a snowstorm...
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