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  • 2 Corinthians 8: The Joy of Giving

    Paul continues by addressing his audience as brothers and sisters. When I was a kid, the old pentecostal churches used to refer to each other in this manner. “And now Sister Sarah is going to play us a special on the piano.” It’s a warm way to greet our church friends.  Paul reminds the Corinthians…

  • Romans 7: Wanting More

    Paul uses the example of “till death do we part,” of marriage to explain the law. He says that if you remarry after your spouse dies, you don’t break the your vow of marriage. Similarly, under Christ, we are in a new arrangement, we are no longer bound by the previous commitment. We are not…

  • H-A-double P-I-N-E-double S

    Our women’s study is going through the “Every Thought Captive” book by Kyle Idleman. This week we are reading about the pleasure fallacy where people pursue things that make them feel good, only to find themselves worse off. He’s right, in an attempt to make ourselves feel better we binge eat, binge watch, and binge…

  • John 13: Self-Serve

    At the Passover supper, Jesus washed his disciples feet. Peter does not know how to handle it. First he refuses because he feels it’s not right for the master to serve the follower, but Jesus responds that if he doesn’t allow it, Peter will have no share with him. Then Peter asks Jesus to wash…

  • John 2: Wedding Crashers

    Jesus attends a wedding with his Mother and disciples in Cana. The reception runs out of wine and Mary asks Jesus to do something about it. What could he possibly do? What does she know about him? He says his hour is not come yet, but he tells the servants to fill six stone jars…

  • The Insignificant Other

    Every day I make appointments with people to go over their life insurance. When I schedule the appointment, I go out of my way to ensure that they include their significant other in the conversation. The main reason is that most people won’t make important decisions without their person, so having them on the call…

  • The Tale of Two Colleges

    I have been to college twice, and then taught at several colleges for over 20 years. For a long time, I could not understand people‘s negative attitude about higher education. Why would people hate learning so much? Why would people not want someone to grow and achieve more than the level that their parents had?…

  • Money

    I often hear you don’t need money to be happy, but our cash-based society, everyone needs money to pay for things. Shelter, food, clothing, transportation, education and medicine cost money. All those things have to be paid for my somebody. Money can also purchase services and buy time that would otherwise be taken up by…

  • Sales 2

    A couple of weeks, I wrote about struggling through my week with several days with no sales. I now can understand a little how realtors feel by going to lots of open houses or car sales people feel after going on lots of test drives. The good news is that I did make a substantial…

  • Shared Risk

    There has been a lot of talk about health insurance recently in the news. The whole point of insurance is to share some of the risk that we face in life. The idea is that if all the healthy people pay into one account, then if someone gets sick, that person can afford the care…