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Preachers who do not walk and live and breath every moment in God’s voice can’t preach God’s voice. They will pack their sermons full of contingency plan after contingency plan for how to survive without God’s moment by moment directions. So, Bible teachers prepare their audiences to attempt the impossible: to survive when God doesn’t show up.

But, God isn’t going anywhere and He hasn’t gone anywhere.

When we can’t hear God’s voice, we don’t need contingency plans; we need to connect with Him so we can hear Him. Studying contingency plans, rather than studying His voice, won’t achieve that.  · · · →

Everyone has problems. Everyone has goals and things we want to do. When things conflict, we choose what to do and what to reject. This is called “choice”.

There seems to be some kind of disconnect in many people’s thinking. When we make a choice, we have our excuses. Somehow, we think that having an excuse will relieve us of the negative backlash from our choice that we excuse.

But, negative backlash isn’t stopped by our excuses.

Consequences, good and bad, come from actions, not from our excuses for them. But, not to worry. At lease we have our excuses.  · · · →

It’s easy to hate the bad guys so much that we forget to love the good guys. This usually drives mid-managers and second lieutenants to become tyrants, even though they want to achieve something good.

Never hate evil so much that you forget to love goodness. In fact, it’s probably best to just love what is good and forget about evil, lest evil open its back door to infiltrate your heart.

This applies to mentoring as much as leading. Many brilliant consultants get fired. Frankly, it’s everyone’s fault when the consultant and the client forgot to love goodness the most.  · · · →

The known and the unknown… Are they?

One reason police investigations can take time is evasion and elusion. Villains deceive. That’s what they do. If every crime was as simple as it is made to seem then there would be no need for any police, courts, laws—in fact, if every first guess was right, we wouldn’t even need schools, books, or even language for that matter.

We wouldn’t even need protests, if all things were as they appear.

So, whomever you think the enemy is, just might be your friend. Whoever helps you fight him is probably your puppetmaster.

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