Prayers: What’s Wrong with Our Prayers? Here’s What’s Wrong…

Prayers! What’s wrong with our prayers? Here’s what’s wrong…what we often call prayer isn’t prayer at all.

Let me explain my prayers this way…

I do not pray to be healthy; I pray for wisdom to make healthy choices.

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Service Is My First Priority

Hi, my name is Steve.

You know, we often hear of the word service nowadays, but it’s not what you expect.

Some people’s idea of service is to cut corners, provide shoddy workmanship. But one thing I have learned Read more

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Foundation for Excellence in Giving, Inc.

Counsel to Non-Profits, Faith-Based Organizations, and Congregations Committed to Creating a More Conscious, Compassionate, and Charitable World
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You Are by Nature Spiritual…

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The Single Greatest Spiritual Truth

What Is the Single Greatest Spiritual Truth You Have Ever Learned?

I got asked that question today and, after thinking for a moment, I suppose I would have to answer like this:

“As soon as you are disposed to Read more

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Who Are You?…

When asked this, how would you respond?

I think I will have to respond like this:

“When I left America for Europe on my first trip around the world, I left as a Baptist Christian.

When, in Europe, however, Read more

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What is TRUE Spirituality?…

What is TRUE Spirituality?

For much of my Christian life, I confessed Jesus and so pursued some kind of spiritual life. It was not because I was all that interested in overcoming the self-centeredness that WAS my life…my up Read more

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Who Are the Followers of Jesus?…

Disciples of Jesus are not “saved” people. They are “learners” instead. Which is of course what “disciple” really means.

And, what are “learners” learning?

How to be followers of Jesus. Isn’t there a difference? And, isn’t following Jesus what Read more

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“The Things that Make Us Weep…” Remembering Boston, Newtown, Aurora, Oslo, Bagdad, and Many, Many More

“The things that make us weep contain something we need to know about.”
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Hunger Games: Be Easter Now!

As with most great movies, there are many parallels to our shared experience as human beings in the most recent blockbuster, “The Hunger Games.”

I loved this movie. And now, I must read the books.

In one of the Read more

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Knocking on Doors…

For much of my adult life, I’ve hidden my inner self from others…my questions, my doubts, my fears, my terror over being judged or worse rejected. In these last few years, however, I’m learning to be more honest, more Read more

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