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So, where do we go from here? Our class has participated in two forty day studies this year — each of them designed to engage and “transform” us.  Actually, that has to happen off the page.  While helpful, no book can substitute for living a transformed (or purpose driven) life. It takes work, it takes [...]

I had gotten a little behind on my reading this week.  Rob and I have tried to read the chapters together in the mornings, but sometimes schedules (and forgetfulness) have gotten in the way.  As I was looking over the remaining chapters for the week, I was struck by an idea that I remembered from [...]

A standard of excellence…..  Bur he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.   II Corinthians 12: 9  Jesus was our model for excellence and perfection.  As [...]

In this chapter the topic of Sharing your Faith is compared to going fishing.  Mathison uses a good illustration that a winning fisherman claimed his ability to win the fishing tournament was not because he was an expert at using the equipment or that he watched or studied the other fisherman but it was do to [...]

We will forgo any discussion as to why Teacher Tom felt compelled to assign the most senior of our class members the lesson about “maturity” — the one that begins with a treatise on old lobsters. We will instead move ahead with our topic for today — spiritual maturity — and perhaps even discuss how [...]

I guess it’s no secret that I ride horses.  One of the classes I like is competition trail. Simply put, In a trail class, a horse and rider maneuver through a course of obstacles and receive a score over each obstacle. (Neutral, plus or minus).  There are usually only a few strides between each obstacle and [...]

What more can you say? John Ed Mathison sums up this week by reviewing each of the week’s previous chapters.  We should imitate Christ in offering ourselves in service:  humbly and with a motivation born of gratitude and love for God and empathy and love for our fellow beings.  We should also volunteer ourselves with [...]

I can sum up Chapter 34 as “Humility and Hope.”    But first let me take this opportunity as an “outsider” to thank Mr. Wicker for putting together this blog. It allows folks like me to “write on the wall”. (to quote from the recent “scripture quoting” governor’s debate) We start 34 with the well known [...]

I looked at several translations and versions of the closing scripture in today’s chapter and, while I’m not usually a big fan of The Living Bible, the translation of John 13:17 is excellent.  In other versions, Christ’s instructions are not as imperative as this: “You know these things — now do them!” I wonder how many [...]

Blogging ain’t the same as “talkin”, which most of our class is pretty durn good at. But I read Chapter 32 and felt like I needed to comment. It’s a great piece on TEAM SPIRIT, which I am a huge fan of. Few places rival the opportunity where we want those around us to succeed [...]