Penetrating Posts: Oct 19

Do you ever feel hopeless?  Maybe your real problem is that you’re not hopeless enough!  Read Bob Kauflin’s encouraging words here.
Do you ever feel ugly, or not nearly beautiful enough?  Then you need to watch this video over at GirlTalk and consider their exhortations.  Here’s a taste. 
"Physical beauty, however, does not deliver as advertised. [...]

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INTFD Thoughts: Freed From Comparing

I just love John Piper and am thankful to be alive during the years of his fruitful ministry.  Piper just tells it like it is, because . . . .  well . . . . that’s what Jesus did.  Here’s a recent article concerning the vanity pitfalls that ministers face, but I believe we all [...]

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Fall Fridays

I love fall Fridays in the South.  Apparently there is a universal code that states that Fridays in the fall are dress down days for all people, bankers to school children alike.  Why?  So everyone can wear their favorite college football team’s colors!  You’ll see car flags and car magnets adorning cars up and down [...]

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A Man Is As Good As The Books He Reads

Here is a great article posted by Al Mohler that every book lover will understand. 
Mohler quotes Parini who writes "What
interests me about other people’s books is the nature of their collection. A
personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a
particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in [...]

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My Kingdom Is Not of This World

John 18:36-37 (ESV)  Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world."  [37] Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus [...]

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Computers, Quiche and Quiet

I love this article in today’s USA Today.  It’s about the new generation, my generation of worker who find getting work done is often best accomplished out in our virtual offices (coffee houses, restaurants where free wireless exists).  While I can’t and wouldn’t want to do it everyday, like the people discussed in the article, [...]

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