Posted in testimony on Nov 25th, 2013
Pop quizzes aren’t always bad things.
When I was in school, whether as a kid or as a graduate seminary student, I didn’t like pop quizzes.
Taking a test with no studying and no advance warning left me feeling unprepared and vulnerable to academic failure.
I usually did OK with them because I had tried to pay attention […]
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Posted in testimony on Nov 18th, 2013
There are three sticks of behavioral dynamite that are sure to blow up any Christian’s testimony.
Slow to listen
Quick to speak
Quick to get angry
If people in our families or workplaces or neighborhoods see us displaying these tendencies on a recurring basis, our Christian influence will vaporize into a frozen-in-place fog of failed testimony.
This does not have […]
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Posted in testimony on Nov 14th, 2013
If you’re an adult leading a group of small children through a mountain gorge in order to reach a campsite on the other side, you’ll do all you can to find the least-threatening, least-strenuous path.
You want to make sure your little lambs don’t fall to their injury or death and that one of them doesn’t […]
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Posted in testimony on Oct 10th, 2013
A parent’s responsibilities include teaching his or her child how to be a person of character whose values influence others toward what is right.
What a parent doesn’t want to see is his or her child being eroded in character because values are being influenced toward what is wrong.
I’m a blessed father because […]
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Posted in testimony on Jul 10th, 2013
There are many people in many workplaces who are collecting paychecks today, in part, because of the outstanding performance of one person in the department or out on the sales route.
In a very real sense, the value of that one person’s efforts to serve and impress the company owner(s) prompted them to not discard the […]
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