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Spring Cleaning for the Soul
It’s spring cleaning time. The traditional time to air out a house long closed while winter brought bitter cold and snow. Things that are closed up for long become stuffy and even unhealthy. Including...
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Read With Mindfulness
Did you miss National “Pot” Day? Sometimes I wonder about all these “national days”. Or “national months”. We are in National Overeaters Month. Did you know that? Paul, the apostle, talked of keeping...
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Be Ye Doers of the Word
Paul’s work in writing Romans results in his mature thinking assembled into one letter. He starts with why we need God. He continues with how through Jesus we have access to God’s grace. Then he...
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A Mind Like Water
We read in Proverbs (14:30) “A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh.” David Allen, author and consultant of “Getting Things Done” fame, talks about having a “mind like water.” That is actually a...
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Teach About the Whole Body
The Christian church, especially the Protestant tradition that I’ve grown up in, focuses almost exclusively on the “soul”. Most Protestant denominations, at least in the US, focus on salvation...
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Have We Become Voyeurs
One of my Spiritual Disciplines is fasting–fasting from TV news, that is. No, I’m not a flaming conservative who thinks all the media has a liberal bias. Nor do I think about whether there is a...
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Seven Principles Of Thinking Like Da Vinci
Michael J. Gelb’s book, How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, reminds us of how to elevate our consciousness, creativity, and contribution. I talked about curiosity as the first principle Monday. Let me...
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Ten Lessons for Long Life
I was at a conference last week, and one speaker led off with this slide. Well, actually, his first slide was in Chinese. This was the second slide ;-) These are excellent lessons for life and a...
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The Body As The Temple of the Soul
The apostle Paul loved sports metaphors. He often discussed training using the example of athletes. He also talked about the body as a temple. We need to take care of our bodies. We need to maintain...
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Get Cleansed Not Just Healed
The Gospel of Mark is a great piece of writing. Declarative sentences, concrete nouns, action verbs. The action moves at an almost breathless pace. The book was designed to be read to the gathering....
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