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Christmas Manifesto Reflection, Guest Post
Angie Southard, a Practical Disciple reader, created 5 intentions for the season of Advent and shared those in a post called Christmas Manifesto Revisted. Those intentions really helped her have a better holiday season and in the process she modeled some great disciplines for her family. In today’s post she shares with you her experience. As you read through the post, note how her simple concrete disciplines reached out and touched people around her. Also, note that Angie set herself up to succeed by: 1) Having clear simple goals. 2) Physical triggers, i.e. Her prayer jar sat out as a reminder each day and she printed her gratitude blog, so that she could see and review it. These served as great silent teachers and conversation points with her family. 3) … Read entire article »
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The Myth of Originality
Herman Melville wrote, “It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.” We tend to have a bias in our culture against imitation. Imitation often equates in our minds to fake. For example, imitation leather or imitation fur. Imitation may connote something being cheap or of lesser value. The idea that originality is always better is not always the case. In fact, imitation can be an amazing … Read entire article »
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Self discipline exercises
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7) Last night I was watching a video with my son Matthew that was part of an online course we are taking together. It is a course in developing online products. The instructor actually gives away a number of products to participants in the course. They are completely free to reproduce them and put them online. In the video the instructor was addressing the concern that if he gives the products away won’t the market then be flooded to the point that his students can’t realistically compete. The short answer was no. Mainly because he explained that the sad reality is that 99% of the people who … Read entire article »
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As Lent draws to a close: evaluate and grow
We have only a few days of Lent left. Many of you adopted disciplines or gave some thing up. I hope that has gone very well for you. If not, you can still benefit from the experience. I have discovered that there is as much learning to be done in reflecting upon your Lenten experience afterwards as there is during it. This is particularly true if you had a bad experience or feel you failed. I highly encouraged you this weekend or on Easter day to reflect on the season of Lent and journal about your experience. Journaling will push you to clarify what you have learned. Here are 10 questions to consider. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate your … Read entire article »
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Lose 25 pounds of worthless fat…off of your spirit
Just as you need to maintain physical fitness, you need to nourish and exercise your spirit. The Apostle Paul spoke about the need for and the value of training in godliness. My guest, Rev. Michael Vinson, in today’s podcast breaks down the nourishment of your spirit into three easy to apply inputs you need every day. If you are overly busy and thinking, “I can’t even nourish my body properly, let alone my spirit.” then … Read entire article »
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27 Days Until the Start of a New You!
What if you could be saying this time next year, “I just finished the New Testament.” Today, I had a man come in my office and declare to me that he has finished the New Testament all but the Book of Revelation. His Bible reading began last Lent when he adopted scripture reading as a lentenndiscipline. Multiple times he has come to me with stories of how a passage has spoken to him or how he understood something differently because of the scripture reading he is now doing. That could be you. You could be a physically fitter you who saved money for 40 days. Last year I wanted to work on what I call body holiness and simplicity. I realized that I hadn’t been the best steward of my … Read entire article »
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