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Jan.15.2013
So I woke up this morning only to read someone's FB post that stated, essentially, "What are you attempting today that, without faith in God, it is doomed to fail? If nothing, then you aren't living by faith. Further, if you aren't living by faith, then you aren't pleasing to God" (Heb. 11).
Well,...
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Jan.09.2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-mcswain/life-lessons_b_2427471.html
The link is just above - go there for GPS for the Soul. How nice of the Huffington Post to invite me to be one of the contributors to the newly released APP for smartphones - GPS for the Soul. Here's a little more info but, if...
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Jan.06.2013
Adam and Eve.
There has only ever been Adam and Eve.
That's it.
It is still so today, just Adam and Eve.
Oh, I know. There are those who think the Biblical story of Adam and Eve is a narrative account of the first two people in creation. For decades, I, too, argued this nonsense, as if eternity...
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Jan.05.2013
“What if you slept,” asked Samuel T. Coleridge. “And what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven. And what if, in heaven, you plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you held the flower in your hand?”
Why can’t I have a dream like...
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Jan.04.2013
What's going on, Steve?
Have you ever noticed that your Facebook "Status" is always asking you this question, "What's happening?" Or, "What's going on...?"
Here's what's happening - CHANGE! Little changes. Big changes. Minor ones. Major ones. This will be a year of change - and some of it big - for...
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Dec.31.2012
“I am here!” “I see you!” As Nepo says, these two statements may be the most important things we can say to ourselves and to each other throughout the New Year.
If you make resolutions, make this one: “At every thought of it, I resolve to remind myself…to say to myself, ‘I am here’ – that’s all…...
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Dec.28.2012
I love the story Nepo shares about the troubled man who visits a sage seeking advice. Confused and suffering, the sage looked deeply into his soul and then said, “You may have either a map or a boat. Which shall I give you?”
Looking around at the many other sojourners, all of whom looked equally...
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Dec.24.2012
Radio preachers.
I just returned from Heine Coffee. En route, I turned on the radio, just in time to catch one of the morning preachers. The Sunday morning format is filled every week by the Gospel Gantry's gathering the souls for God's Harvest. Airtime is cheap on Sunday mornings and there's a...
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Dec.22.2012
To a Taoist (pronounced “dow-oist” or something like that) “there is nothing to do and nowhere to go. Accepting this, we can do everything and go anywhere.”
What does this mean?
Nepo explains it this way: “To the Taoist the world in all its mystery and difficulty cannot be improved upon, only...
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Dec.21.2012
I came across this saying and I've been thinking about it this afternoon. It was spoken by Sent-ts'an, Buddhist, around c. 700 C.E.
"If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease."
Political...
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Dec.19.2012
This article currently appears on my Huffington Post blog but I provided here for you as well. If you'd prefer to read it there, go here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-mcswain/the-banquet-table-of-securit...
I saw a statistic today. I do not know if it is true. But, whatever the degree of...
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Dec.18.2012
We don’t.
Carl Jung said, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”For months to come, Americans will make every attempt to fix blame somewhere for the tragedy in Newtown. “What kind of monster would do this?”
Some will blame his mother....
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Dec.17.2012
You, Mr. Huckabee, I think you owe an apology!
What you said in an interview with Cavuto on FOX News is highly offensive:
Cavuto asked: “How could God let this happen?”
To begin with, Mr. Cavuto, on one hand, is asking the wrong question. It is not God we should be asking “Why?” Not until we ask it...
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Dec.16.2012
You cannot imagine - or, maybe you can - how many religious people, mostly religious leaders, say to me, "I agree with much of what you say...much of what you write...and, even much of what you believe, but do you know what would happen to me if I were to say in church the things you say or admit...
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Dec.12.2012
It's the one thing everyone wants.
Few people seem to find it.
Fewer still know where to look.
For, happiness, that is.
I wasted more years than I wish to admit…
…wanting to be happy,…not certain, when I was happy, whether I was really happy,…and, even more uncertain where to find it.
Which is why...
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You were born to walk with God, so why would you walk alone?”
—The Enoch Factor: The Sacred Art of Knowing God
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