Author: Dad
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Can You Be Completely Honest?
This weeks challenge is all about honesty. Can you share your deepest secrets? That’s a tough one. One that needs to be taken very seriously. Awhile ago our pastor spoke on honesty. He challenged us to be completely honest in the day-to-day routines. For example, if you go out to eat and the food…
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Broken Gas Gauge
“Helping hands” posts are designed to give my readers an idea on how to help others. Sometimes I will post things that I have done myself to help someone else, sometimes it will be ideas that I have, or sometimes it will be things I have seen other people doing. I will try to mix…
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WWJD?
What Would Jesus Do? It’s become a common phrase and was once one of the most popular trends in America. But when it comes to getting discouraged, what would Jesus do? What did Jesus do? Did He ever get discouraged? Is it even a sin to get discouraged? I’m not sure if it is a…
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Someone I Know…
On the topic of “Discourage” this week… Do you ever find yourself trying to change somebody else? I think we all do this. If you have kids, you tell them what to wear, how to act, and what not to do. If you work in an office, you probably at one point complained about the…
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Discouraging…
The challenge for myself last week, was to put away gadgets for a day. For the most part I did very well. My wife and I took a mini vacation and I did send a few text messages but I did not check emails or Facebook or anything else. So overall I consider that one…
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Returning Carts
I realize there are a ton of ways to help others by spending money. Where it becomes a bit more challenging is helping others without spending a dime. So for this post, I wanted to share something that is very simple but for whatever reason had a huge impact on me. Growing up in Nebraska,…
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Being Materialistic
Being a man and living in the US has made me extremely brainwashed when it comes to material goods. I am a techie. I work in the tech world. So it’s only logical for me to want to the next best thing and to be an early adopter of all things technology. I have…
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Is money the root of all evil?
I had this thought recently that involved the common phrase, money is the root of all evil. I wondered if money is the root of all evil, then why are churches so insistent on asking for it? So I began a little research and quickly learned that phrase is commonly misquoted. The quote actually…
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Tithing
My wife and I volunteered at our a church awhile back for an organization that helps struggling families regain their feet. It was a Saturday where most of the families were able to leave and go to do their own things. These families were in this program for a variety of reasons. Some just made…
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Helping Hands
It’s hard for me to take a message I hear on a Sunday and convert that to something I can incorporate into my daily/weekly/monthly habits. So I have created a series called “Helping Hands”. Every so often, I want to encourage you to help someone else. There are a million different things you can do…
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How to be a Christian in the Workplace
I have been told on more than one occasion that people love my attitude at work. I’m not one to complain often and I try to have a positive outlook. But if you were to ask my colleagues if I was a Christian, I bet that only a handful of them would be able to…