Author Archives: Pete

Able, Willing, and Ready

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Pete

No doubt she’s a rarity . . . an eighty-six year old gymnast. The videos have been flying around over the last couple of days . . . floor mat exercise . . . parallel bars . . . kind … Continue reading →

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Needed . . . More Fathers

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Pete

You can hear the tone changing . . . from commendation to constructive criticism . . . from recognition to reproof . . . from acknowledging what they had to pointing out what they lacked. I’ve read 1Corinthians before . … Continue reading →

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A Man of Few Words

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Pete

The account I’m reading in Mark 1 this morning is almost identical to the one I read in Matthew 8 back in January . . . but it didn’t leave the same impression then. Maybe it’s because of how the … Continue reading →

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The Mind of Christ

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Pete

So . . . it’s been kind of an annual event. I went back and looked at my journaling for the past 5 years on the day when I hit this point in my reading plan . . . and … Continue reading →

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Keep Drawing Near

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Pete

You’ve gotta love the candor of the Scriptures. Far from shying away from the tough questions or denying the reality of the human experience, the Father instead acknowledges our failings and frailties and uses them to point us to Himself. … Continue reading →

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The Real Power

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Pete

This morning it’s a phrase in the opening verses of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians that has me thinking. A thought about draining something of it’s power . . . . . . a warning about inadvertently establishing a … Continue reading →

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He Rides the Heavens

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Pete

Perhaps, if I think about it, I’m probably pre-disposed at times to thinking that, in a sense, God has a desk job. That, in my mind’s eye, when I imagine God I most often imagine Him enthroned in heaven . … Continue reading →

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Seek and You Will Find

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Pete

They were there when it was all over. After the joke of “due process” He had undergone in order that He might be condemned . . . after the beating . . . after the mockery . . . after … Continue reading →

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What An Example!

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Pete

It’s a bit of an understatement really. Easy to just skim over it in the greater context of the main point Paul is trying to make. A small phrase . . . with huge implications. A “no brainer” observation . … Continue reading →

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Escaped the Curse

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Pete

I don’t know how you read Deuteronomy 28 without a shiver running down your spine at some point. Sixty-eight verses . . . fourteen of them outlining the blessings that will come upon the children of Israel as long as … Continue reading →

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