Text: Numbers 32:5-9 We are at the end of the children of Israel’s 40 year journey in the wilderness. In their exodus, God has them pause to examine themselves. The first generation that left Egypt has died off, because of their unbelief. The children endured famine, and God supplied quail. They gorged themselves on [...]
Know Your Stress, and Defeat It
Avoiding Stress My 18 month old granddaughter has a new favorite expression. “Oh, maaaaan!” Which I can only guess means that things aren’t going as planned or expected in her little life. We each have our own favorite expression when it comes to feeling stressed out, and I wouldn’t bother naming all of those [...]
How Run a Successful Meeting
We have all been help victim to or been held hostage to the time-suck of non-productive meetings. Some meetings happen simply because they are on the schedule, and we feel we “must” do them. Some meeting are called by people, I think, to alleviate their own boredom or to try to breakthrough some [...]
Are You A Hoarder?
Shopping Bags One of my girlfriends is a neat-freak, and that’s okay for her. I am one of her many friends who is not. For us, she has a phrase, “You know that you’re just two shopping bags of being a hoarder.” I am reasonably sure that is not true. I have seen the [...]
Helping or Hobbling?
Have you ever found yourself in a position where you felt you were doing everything you could to help someone yet their negative situation just got worse and worse? Have you ever felt like you were helping someone, but they keep falling into the same hole, over and over and over? If so, it’s possible that you [...]
7 Steps to Overcoming Disappointment
Getting the Bear There is an old saying- yes, I am old and I know a lot of sayings. There is an old saying that says, “Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you”. Some days you win, and some days you don’t win. Because life is not always perfect, [...]
Do You want to be Healed?
The Pool at Bethesda In today’s text, we find Jesus in Jerusalem to observe a feast. He was at a pool by the Sheep Gate. The Hebrew name for the pool was Bethesda and there were five porches around the pool. Rumor has it that at certain times an angel would come down and [...]
Vision Board: Let’s Make One!
Weekend Project…THIS Weekend! Most of us are visual learners, so we are going to spend some time talking about vision boards. In the past I have mentioned using vision boards as part of a plan to achieve our goals and stay on task. Today, I am going to backtrack a little, and talk about [...]
Shift out of Impossible
Big dreams Each of us, at some point in our lives, has dreamed of being somebody special, somebody important. Who among us hasn’t fantasized about being the one who hits the game-winning homerun? Or being the homecoming queen? Or striking it rich, being successful, or happy? We all dream big dreams and have great aspirations. [...]
Be Yourself
We forget I have recently spent some time with my youngest granddaughter. She is 18 months old. In watching her and playing with her, I started thinking… It is amazing that many of the things that we knew as children, we must re-learn as adults. One of the things that we were absolutely certain of [...]
Martina G. McGowan
My Series on Bad Boys of the Bible
