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1YrL8tr Reflections, Part 2
As I reflect upon things I have learned this past year two important (and related lessons) come to mind: the essential role of mentors and of small groups to our spiritual health and vitality. This is someone I have always believed and always taug… →
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A Good Morning
Today has been a good morning. Really a sabbath morning. I don’t get these very often these days. Slept in until 11… coffee… fruit smoothie… prayer and time in God’s Word (Philippians 2 this morning)… read the New York Times (on my Kindle,… →
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Ted & Gail Haggard Planting New Church In Colorado Springs
Ted & Gail Haggard announced the new church — Saint James — earlier this week. You can read the Associated Press article here. Here is most of the article: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ? Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard said Wednesday that he wil… →
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1YrL8tr Reflections, Part 1
It has been one year since I was forced out of full time ministry because of my own sin and because people found out I was gay (note that is two different issues). I am going to post some reflections and “lessons learned” over the next few days, a… →
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Dehumanizing the Leader
I have spent much of the last 15 years or so studying leaders and leadership. Much of that time I have also been actively leading. Through reading, coaching, mentoring, observing, academic study, conferences, case studies, etc, I consider myself a… →
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Starving Jesus
Great video: Great book: click here. →
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Memorial Day Prayer
Almighty God, kindle, we pray, in every heart the true love of peace, and guide with your wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth, that in tranquillity your dominion may increase until the earth is filled with the knowledge of y… →
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It has been one year…
It has been exactly one year since everything blew up in my life — one year since I started my leave-of-absence which led to my resignation from the church… and all that went with that… lost friendships, community, livelihood, purpose, church… →
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Core Christianity
There is but one Christian ethic and but one Christian metric: LOVE. In other words, LOVE GOD and LOVE PEOPLE. All is else is commentary — or distraction. And those who proclaim any other Gospel are false teachers, not to be heeded. →
BEN DUBOW 