Tag: rest
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Are you a Seagull or a Steward?
Are you a seagull or a steward? If you ever want to truly find rest and life balance when it comes to money, possessions, and a materialistic mindset, you will come to recognize that ownership is highly overrated. There’s a scene in the movie Finding Nemo where a pelican is on the dock and Marlin,…
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Be present
Of all the lessons I’ve learned over the past four years in my journey toward rest and life balance, “being present” and “living in the present” have been the most difficult and challenging. Weather it’s remaining engaged and present during a meeting with leadership or staff members at work, a conversation with my wife, one…
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Self-Care
Mention the word self-care at church and you are often met with blanks stares or strong words of protest that scripture doesn’t support self-care. Yes, self-care can be taken to extremes and go off the rails. But please don’t get on your theological high horse and tell me there is not a place for it…
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You’re getting very sleepy
If I were to ask you what are your most important assets? You might mention your home or other real estate investments, your business, stock portfolio, 401K, or other high dollar possessions. But the truth is your most important asset is you! As I write this post the stock market has been tanking and many…
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Remember the Sabbath
Remember the Sabbath. Sounds pretty simple. And yet it is the longest of the ten commandments – 98 words based on the NKJV. God must have anticipated that we’d mess it up, and gave it more ink than any of the others. There is no ambiguity. The instruction is clear, we are to observe a…
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Do you need a new role model?
Have you ever heard a pastor, or ministry leader say the devil doesn’t take a day off so neither should we? That’s a preposterous statement and one that I find both manipulative and misguided. I saw a meme a while back that picture two men talking. The first one says, “Pastor Brown told me he…
The Rest Stop 