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Welcome
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Welcome to my blog. Please check back soon for new entries. Read Full Story
Responsibility for your choices
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Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. Our daily lives are filled with choices. At each crossroads of decision we evaluate outcomes and make a choice, based on a variety of factors. Some of these factors include: Impulse, training, past experiences, core values, goals, needs and the influence of others. There are times when our decisions are appropriate, and there are also times that we simply make wrong choices. There are always consequences for the decisions we make, good or bad. Ou... Read Full Story
Calling the next play
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Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. In the game of football each team enters into a “huddle” prior to the beginning of the next play. The huddle is the place where the strategy for the next play is disseminated to the players on the field. The play is actually called by a coach on the sidelines, but is communicated by the quarterback or on field defensive leader. The coach has chosen the play being communicated based of his observations of both his team and the other team’s strateg... Read Full Story
Calling in the next play
From:  carlwillis.com
Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. In the game of football each team enters into a “huddle” prior to the beginning of the next play. The huddle is the place where the strategy for the next play is disseminated to the players on the field. The play is actually called by a coach on the sidelines, but is communicated by the quarterback or on field defensive leader. The coach has chosen the play being communicated based of his observations of both his team and the other team’s str... Read Full Story
Power of the Mind
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Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. We all have some understanding of the power of the mind. Words like “positive mental attitude” and “stinking thinking” are part of our working vocabulary. Our mind is the center of influence for much of what goes on in our lives. With our thoughts, we can harness great strength that leads us through the most difficult of circumstances. Sadly, we can also latch on to thoughts of negativity and depravity that lead us into dark places and actions th... Read Full Story
The Power of the Mind
From:  carlwillis.com
Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. We all have some understanding of the power of the mind. Words like “positive mental attitude” and “stinking thinking” are part of our working vocabulary. Our mind is the center of influence for much of what goes on in our lives. With our thoughts, we can harness great strength that leads us through the most difficult of circumstances. Sadly, we can also latch on to thoughts of negativity and depravity that lead us into dark places and acti... Read Full Story
The lessons of failure
From:  carlwillis.com
Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. In life we all encounter times of testing. These times of testing expose not only our strengths, but also our weaknesses. Unfortunately, the weaknesses are often exposed through failure. We all too often view these times of failure as disqualifying events from further usefulness in the Kingdom of God; however, these times of failure take on a whole new purpose in the hands of Jesus. To clarify this point let’s look at the words Jesus had for Simo... Read Full Story
The building blocks of failure
From:  carlwillis.com
Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. In life we all encounter times of testing. These times of testing expose not only our strengths, but also our weaknesses. Unfortunately, the weaknesses are often exposed through failure. We all too often view these times of failure as disqualifying events from further usefulness in the Kingdom of God; however, these times of failure take on a whole new purpose in the hands of Jesus. To clarify this point let’s look at the words Jesus had f... Read Full Story
The Limitations of Testing
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Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. There are times in our lives when we go through severe adversity. Times of pressure and testing that seem almost too much to bear; times when our faith doesn’t seem substantial enough to see us through the storm. In reality these times of testing are the building blocks of faith that make us stronger in the end. While most trials are the circumstances of life, common to all of us, there are those unique times when God allows the enemy to put us t... Read Full Story
Permission to test
From:  carlwillis.com
Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. There are times in our lives when we go through severe adversity. Times of pressure and testing that seem almost too much to bear; times when our faith doesn’t seem substantial enough to see us through the storm. In reality these times of testing are the building blocks of faith that make us stronger in the end. While most trials are the circumstances of life, common to all of us, there are those unique times when God allows the enemy to put ... Read Full Story