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entering the presence of God

10/9/2006 · Comments

in living the life

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?
And who shall stand in his holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to what is false
and does not swear deceitfully.
He will receive blessing from the Lord
and righteousness from the God of his salvation. (Psalm 24:3–5)

Psalm 24 was part of the morning prayer reading today in The Little Book of Hours, and for the first time the list David gives us caught my attention. “The hill of the Lord” is the temple (so the footnotes in my NIV Study Bible say), and David is telling us how we can come into the presence of a holy God. As I meditated on the list, I saw that every part of me is considered. read the complete post

Tagged as: David, emotions, mind, priorities, Psalms, self-examination, soul, will, words

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Dilbert: “work-life balance”

2/24/2006 · Comments

in calling, quick take

Dilbert: “work-life balance”: Today’s comic offers a wonderful picture of the struggle to find balance. Dogbert offers a list of 11 priorities and tells his seminar participants that they can do only 3; work and holidays are two, and they can choose the remaining one.

Tagged as: priorities, time management, work

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“consult not your fears”

February 21, 2006

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.–Pope John XXIII

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fear: the anti-goal

November 16, 2005

Every week, I eat breakfast with Jeff, Chris, and William–we are, to use John Eldredge’s term, a “band of brothers.” Our conversations range over a wide variety of topics, from movies to marriage and politics to prophecy. However, we always make it a point to talk about our goals, and we have worked our way through some books to help us be more purposeful and focused.

Jeff’s been reading Chris Howard’s Turning Passions into Profits, and he told us about Howard’s idea of having goals you move toward (positive goals) and those you move away from (anti-goals)…

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a prayer for what I love

August 19, 2005

I’ve been thinking about yesterday’s post, wondering about the appropriate response to the Holy Spirit touching the one thing I don’t really want to give up. In such a response–such a prayer–I must:…

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“stop praying”

August 16, 2005

Dan Miller’s latest newsletter sounds heretical, but he makes a great point that sometimes “waiting on the Lord” is simply an excuse for doing nothing.…

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what kind of family are you?

March 15, 2005

In today’s edition of the 48 Days Newsletter, Dan Miller writes about the need to resist conformity and have an “eagle heart.” He says:

“The Latin saying ‘Aquila non captat musca’ (The Eagle doesn’t catch flies) is used to indicate that wise people do not engage in minor activities.…

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