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Animal Comics: What Caption Would You Use?
Posted in Animal Comics
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Tagged animal comics, listening, marriage, relationships, Rev. Dr. Chris Ayers, You are not listening to me
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Pray This Prayer With Me – Every Sad Movie That Was Ever Made
We pray God for people who when you look at their face it is like every sad movie that was ever made for human beings who have a lot of unfinished business inside themselves for individuals who have no one … Continue reading →
Pray This Prayer With Me – Holy Listening
God, Help me to be sure of only that which requires certainty. It would be nice to know, be certain about, what I’m supposed to be doing. Maybe I’m supposed to walk with others through their unknowns. Perhaps I should … Continue reading →
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Tagged certainty, guidance, holy listening, inner being, journey, Know Your Story and Lead with It: The Power of Narrative in Clergy Leadership, listening, my purpose, mystery, pray, prayer, Richard L. Hester and Kelli Walker-Jones, unknown, voiceless, what I'm supposed to be doing
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Animal Comics: What Caption Would You Use?
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Tagged animal comics, liberalrev.com, listening, listening skills, marriage, relationships, Rev. Dr. Chris Ayers, talkative
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Preacher Frustrated With The Christians?: You Are Not Alone – Calvin
John (Jean) Calvin Calvin complained that when he was preaching people did not always pay attention. He doubted if people listened at all. The gospel was being preached by Calvin “but of what use is that when no one does … Continue reading →
Posted in Church History
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Tagged Calvin, Herman J. Selderhuis, Jean Calvin, John Calvin, John Calvin: A Pilgrim's Life, listening, preaching, sermons
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Ever Met Someone Who . . . .
Ever met someone who, when you share one of your problems or concerns, immediately starts telling you why they had the worse case of whatever you had?
Posted in People I've Known
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Tagged caring, inability to listen, listening, narcissistic, problems, sufferng
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Top Five Things I Don’t Like About My Wife
We met for supper at a Mexican restaurant. For a solid hour I listened. They teach us in seminary pastoral care classes about the importance of listening. In this case, my listening was not an example of a pastoral care … Continue reading →
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Tagged counseling, listening, marriage counseling, pastoral care, spouse complaints, spouse faults, therapy
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The Truth (delivered to me by my parents)
Goldie (Goldie – she hated being called Goldie -sorry mom) Jane Ayers and Emmit Otis Ayers, proud parents of 4 Ayers boys My mother taught me to tell the truth. My father taught me not to think I had all the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ecclesiastes, epistemology, Generation to Generation, half truths, illiterate, instructions, Job, know it alls, knowledge, learning, learning from others, legacy, listening, literacy, parents, political debate, Psalms, students, teachers, telling the truth, truth or consequence, wisdom, Wisdom literature
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Texas Board of Education Half Right at Best
The Texas Board of Education is not giving its students a good education. A lot of bad education tries to tell only one side of the story, attempts to ignore or deny the very existence of truth in “the other.” … Continue reading →
Posted in Politics/Current Events
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Tagged ambivalence, American history, bad education, Baptists, Bible, Board of Education, bored, Civil War, come hell or high water, communist, consciousness, Constitution, control, curriculum, good education, history, hypocrites, John LeLand, liberals, listen, listening, new kind of government, new kind of politics, New Testament, new understanding, North and South, Old Testament, politics, power, revisionist American history, revisionist history, revisionist US history, simplistic, socialism, South, Southern, Southern tea, states' rights, Texan, Texas, Texas Board of Education, Texas curriculum, the other, The Rights of Conscience Inalienable, truth, understanding, US constitution, War Between the States
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