Meta-Know-You: Who’s in Charge Here?

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Meta-Know-You: Who’s in Charge Here?

Time to continue our series on meta-cognition, otherwise known as “ways of thinking.” The last post introduced us to the idea of internal versus external locus of control. This in many ways is a second order thought process, or meta-meta-cognition. This one mindset shapes many mindsets. Read more…

Five Gifts I wish I could Give

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Five Gifts I wish I could Give

This year for Christmas, if it were somehow possible, I would like to give some gifts to our culture. I would like to give some things back to our culture that it seems to me we once had. Some things that seem to be slipping from our midst, almost entirely unnoticed. Read more…

Meta-Know-You: Feeling out of Control?

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Meta-Know-You: Feeling out of Control?

“One day when I win the lottery, all of my dreams will finally come true.” “If only those other people would see me for who I really am, I could finally get the kind of job I really deserve.” “It seems to me that everyone is always trying to hold me back, nothing works out the way I think it should.”  Read more…

Meta-Know-You: Prisoner Thinking Defined

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Meta-Know-You: Prisoner Thinking Defined

Prisoner thinking, as I have mentioned is the way of thinking, the paradigm, or mindset, of all post Genesis 3 citizens. Prisoner thinking is not just bad information, it is bad process. I thought perhaps it would be helpful to break this down into it’s most basic building blocks. Read more…

Meta-Know-You: Prisoner Thinking

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Meta-Know-You: Prisoner Thinking

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts”. -Isaiah 55:8-9 Read more…

Meta-Know-You: Seeing by the Spirit

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Meta-Know-You: Seeing by the Spirit

10 For to us God revealed them (mysteries) through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. Read more…

Meta-Know-You: How Can you See if You are Blind?

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Meta-Know-You: How Can you See if You are Blind?

Blind, you say? No I am not blind, why do you ask?

I often pose the question, “How many blind people did Jesus minister to?” After a pause for effect and a few answers, I deliver my point. Read more…

What is your Target?

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What is your Target?

In the age of information surplus, we all have something to say, and we all have a venue to say it. We speak, we argue, we Tweet, or we make a You Tube video. If we get really focused we blog. If we don’t blog, we simply comment on someone else’s blog, or Facebook post.  We all have something to say and a way to say it. Read more…

Disconnected

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Disconnected

Native Americans tell the story of a gold prospector who hired several warriors as guides to take him across the frontier to reach the west coast to take advantage of the gold boom. Read more…

Humanize

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Humanize

I keep having the urge to write but I don’t have a topic. I just have a lump. Somewhere between my chest and my throat, I feel something a bit swollen and heavy. Something like a repressed cry, but not quite. It feels more like a repressed blog. Read more…