A Walk Through The Word Public Journal

05/17/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:55:07 GMT

1 Samuel 20:1-21:15 ~ John 9:1-41 ~ Psalm 113:1-114:8 ~ Proverbs 15:15-17I wish I had a more clever opening than “welcome to the Daily Audio Bible” and I don’t right now at this point of the day, with the day that we have had, so that said, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Jill. I’m Brian’s wife and I’m filling in for Brian today. As some of you may or may not know, he had the little booger of the kidney stone, which was not little, but he had the big booger of the kidney stone blasted...[More]

05/16/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:43:47 GMT

1 Samuel 18:5-19:24 ~ John 8:31-59 ~ Psalm 112:1-10 ~ Proverbs 15:12-14Greetings and welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Today is the 16th of May. I’m Brian and it’s wonderful to be here with you today. Well, I gotta run to the hospital after this. Mr. Kidney Stone is about to be a thing of the past, but I’ll talk about that in a minute. We’re reading from The Message this week. (Today’s Bible readings above.)Prayer: Father God, we come before you once again, thanking you from our hearts fo...[More]

05/15/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:15:23 GMT

1 Samuel 17:1-18:4 ~ John 8:21-30 ~ Psalm 111:1-10 ~ Proverbs 15:11Today is the 15th of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and it is a pleasure to be here with you today from Tennessee and home. It is good to be here, although, man, I’ve been reflecting. It is going to take me some days. I was really going on this last leg because I knew it was going to be a long run and I really wanted to seek the Lord on some things, so I’m processing and I just really feel like he has spoke...[More]

05/14/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:47:36 GMT

1 Samuel 15:1-16:23 ~ John 8:1-20 ~ Psalm 110:1-7 ~ Proverbs 15:8-10Today is May 14th. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and it is great to be here with you today from the rolling hills of Tennessee where I live. It is so nice to be back home. What fond memories I have of the last month. I wasn’t gone a month obviously, but a week and a half, and it is good to be back. Just wonderful memories from these last several family gatherings that we’ve had. It is great to be with you to...[More]

05/13/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sun, 13 May 2012 04:39:06 GMT

1 Samuel 14:1-52 ~ John 7:30-53 ~ Psalm 109:1-31 ~ Proverbs 15:5-7Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Today is the 13th of May and Colorado Rocky Mountain greetings to you. Can I just say brrr? Brrrr! It has been cold. What an interesting month of climates because I’ve been all over the place, and so have you since you virtually travel with me. Jill and I were on the Pacific Coast. We were in Southern California so it was Southern California, pleasant, nice, good breeze. Flew into Denver s...[More]

05/11/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:57:01 GMT

1 Samuel 10:1-11:15 ~ John 6:43-71 ~ Psalm 107:1-43 ~ Proverbs 15:1-3Today is the 11th of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Rocky Mountain greetings to you from lovely Colorado where the air is crisp and clean and all is just exquisite springtime in the mountains. So good to be here with you today as we begin the deeper parts of the Wild at Heart event that takes place a couple times a year and I bring men to here in Colorado. We can chit chat about that in a few minutes, but we’ve come...[More]

05/12/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:54:20 GMT

1 Samuel 12:1-13:23 ~ John 7:1-30 ~ Psalm 108:1-13 ~ Proverbs 15:4Greetings. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and today is May 12th. I greet you from beautiful Colorado where the Rocky Mountain air abounds in its crisp and cleanness and where it is just gorgeous. I certainly have an affinity for this place and if you’ve been around the Daily Audio Bible much, you know of my fondness for Colorado and its lovely Rocky Mountains. So it is just really, really great to be here. I rea...[More]

05/10/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:14:07 GMT

1 Samuel 8:1-9:27 ~ John 6:22-42 ~ Psalm 106:32-48 ~ Proverbs 14:34-35Today is the 10th of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and, as always, it is a supreme pleasure to be here with you today, last day in California. In fact, we’ve… Well, this is kind of the deal. We race to the airport and fly away, so sitting here with the tide not as in as it was yesterday but still kind of in. You may hear some of that in the background. It is pretty near impossible to completely get it...[More]

05/09/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:42:48 GMT

1 Samuel 5:1-7:17 ~ John 6:1-21 ~ Psalm 106:13-31 ~ Proverbs 14:32-33Today is the 9th of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian.And I’m Jill. Of course, we have the normal background nature and everything that happens at the Daily Audio Bible, but today it is going to be a little hard to get rid of the noise outside of our door here, which is the roaring of the mighty Pacific. The tide has come in. You hear that? I love it.It is awesome, but I’m an engineer and I there is nothing...[More]

05/08/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:09:01 GMT

1 Samuel 2:22-4:22 ~ John 5:24-47 ~ Psalm 106:1-12 ~ Proverbs 14:30-31Today is the 8th of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today, again coming to you from the lovely Pacific Coast of Southern California. It is stereotypical Southern California, blue sky and beauty all around. Lovely to be here with you today. We’ll be here for another day involved in some meetings as well as some roundtable discussions that we’ve been invited to particip...[More]

05/07/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:43:40 GMT

1 Samuel 1:1-2:21 ~ John 5:1-23 ~ Psalm 105:37-45 ~ Proverbs 14:28-29Today is the 7th of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian coming to you from the Pacific Coast of California. It is good to be back with you. Thanks to Jill for sitting in yesterday. It was a drama-filled day, to be sure. She has filled you in on the details. Thank you for the outpouring of love of so many of you. We feel your prayers. I even felt them while in the hospital, just really spending just a littl...[More]

05/06/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sun, 06 May 2012 06:47:03 GMT

Ruth 2:1-4:22 ~John 4:43-54 ~ Psalm 105:16-36 ~ Proverbs 14:26-27Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Jill here with you. Just going to intro and let you all know what a fantastic time we had together tonight at the Daily Audio Bible Family Gathering Orange County Style. The only thing that was possibly missing, besides some of you, was Brian. Thankfully he had the scriptures read this morning. So you are going to hear him read the scriptures, and then I will be back at the end to update ...[More]

05/05/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sun, 06 May 2012 05:45:39 GMT

Judges 21:1-Ruth 1:22 ~ John 4:4-42 ~ Psalm 105:1-15 ~ Proverbs 14:25Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible for the 5th of May. I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you from the rolling hills of Tennessee, but today is big day and there is a big bird waiting up in Nashville for me and the missus and we’ll head westward. There is a Daily Audio Bible Family Gathering in Orange County California this evening. So we’ll mention that at the end, but we’ll get into the Word now. We’re finishing the boo...[More]

05/04/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:41:09 GMT

Judges 19:1-20:48 ~ John 3:22-4:3 ~ Psalm 104:24-35 ~ Proverbs 14:22-23Today is May 4th. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is wonderful, wonderful to be here with you today. This week we have been reading from the Holman Christian Standard Bible, so we’ll continue to do that, moving forward in the book of Judges. (Today’s Bible readings above.)Alright, so we obviously probably should have a conversation about what we read in the book of Judges today. I think it is fair to jus...[More]

Journal Test, by zionlo

1164 — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:49:37 GMT

Testal Test[Complete Entry]

05/03/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:24:18 GMT

Judges 17:1-18:31 ~ John 3:1-21 ~ Psalm 104:1-23 ~ Proverbs 14:20-21Today is May 3rd. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is great to be here with you today. This week we’ve been reading from the Holman Christian Standard Bible so there is really no reason to break tradition and stride and switch midstream, so we won’t. The Holman Christian Standard is where we’ll spend our time today. We’re in the book of Judges for the Old Testament portion of our reading. (Today’s Bible rea...[More]

05/02/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:59:51 GMT

Judges 15:1-16:31 ~ John 2:1-25 ~ Psalm 103:1-22 ~ Proverbs 14:17-19Today is May 2. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is great to be here. It is great to be in the rolling hills of Tennessee where we’re having really one of the most beautiful springs that I remember. I’m about to say ever, but that might be an exaggeration. We’re having a glorious spring here in Tennessee. So welcome from the rolling hills of Tennessee. I’m Brian and you have found your way to the Daily Aud...[More]

05/01/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:30:00 GMT

Judges 13:1-14:20 ~ John 1:29-51 ~ Psalm 102:1-28 ~ Proverbs 14:15-16Well, here we are. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, May 1, the beginning of the fifth month and day 121 of our year, if you’re keeping count. So, yeah, we’re kind of getting into things now. Welcome to the full-blown springtime in Daily Audio Bible world. Back in Nashville, really tired. Just catching up from the weekend. What a wonderful weekend. Thank you, Maryland. Thank you, Washington, DC for just incredible hospi...[More]

04/30/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Tue, 01 May 2012 04:26:03 GMT

Judges 11:1-12:15 ~ John 1:1-28 ~ Psalm 101:1-8 ~ Proverbs 14:13-14Today is the 30th of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. Wow, here we are, the last day of the month of April and we’ll turn the page. I’m coming to you from Maryland today. What a wonderful, wonderful trip this has been. Thank you to Hope Christian Church for just the amazing hospitality. I just enjoyed the time that we had. I confess. I’m tired now after three services and then getting up to do the Jord...[More]

04/29/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:22:42 GMT

Judges 9:22-10:18 ~ Luke 24:13-53 ~ Psalm 100:1-5 ~ Proverbs 14:11-12Today is April 29th. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Greetings from Maryland, just outside of Baltimore. Wow. Wow. What an amazing… I feel like I say that always about the family gatherings and truly, every single one of them is unique and has its own little flare and personality because of the region or place in the world we are. But wow, what an awesome and heartwarming reception here in Maryland. The first Daily Au...[More]

04/25/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:37:39 GMT

Judges 4:1-5:31 ~ Luke 22:35-53 ~ Psalm 94:1-23 ~ Proverbs 14:3-4Today is April 25th. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is a wonderful privilege to be with you today as we kind of congregate around… Sometimes in my mind I have it as this kind of campfire. I know it is a lot more than that, but there is just sometimes I sit down at this microphone and I picture this campfire and we’re all just around this campfire. I know it is kind of a global campfire and I know in my mind’s...[More]

04/28/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:59:35 GMT

Judges 8:17-9:21 ~ Luke 23:44-24:12 ~ Psalm 99:1-9 ~ Proverbs 14:9-10Today is the 28th of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It’s great to be back here with you today. Thanks to my precious wife for filling in yesterday. Today is a big day—we’ll do the Daily Audio Bible here from Nashville, run on down to Nashville International Airport and head toward Maryland, landing in Baltimore for the Daily Audio Bible Family Gathering Maryland Style tonight and then I’ll be speaking ...[More]

04/27/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:32:48 GMT

Judges 7:1-8:17 ~ Luke 23:13-43 ~ Psalm 97:1-98:9 ~ Proverbs 14:7-8Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Jill. I am Brian’s wife, so I’m filling in for the big boy today. He is not feeling well. We have had much sickness around here and I guess because I’m his wife, it is somewhat unavoidable, a little bit predictable, but he has bypassed this ugly virus I had and he has caught a different kind of bug, so he is under the weather and resting and so JP filling in for BH, which is kind of funn...[More]

04/26/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:52:54 GMT

Judges 6:1-40 ~ Luke 22:54-23:12 ~ Psalm 95:1-96:13 ~ Proverbs 14:5-6Today is April 26th. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. Wonderful to be here with you today as we round the corner and head toward another week. It is about time to climb on another airplane and fly off into the sky. This time we’ll be heading east toward Maryland. We’ll talk about that at the end. We’re reading from the Good News translation this week. (Today’s Bible readings above.)The Gideon story found in ...[More]

04/24/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:53:52 GMT

Judges 2:10-3:31 ~ Luke 22:14-34 ~ Psalm 92:1-93:5 ~ Proverbs 14:1-2Today is the 24th of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. Hold on, I gotta adjust the microphone. Hopefully that didn’t make too much noise in your ear. Greetings. Man, its cold in these rolling hills. We left for Indiana on Friday night late, nice weather, beautiful, wearing shorts. Just kind of heading up, the further north we got, the colder it got and I thought, ‘man, wow, there is a cold front going t...[More]

04/23/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:51:55 GMT

Judges 1:1-2:9 ~ Luke 21:29-22:13 ~ Psalm 90:1-91:16 ~ Proverbs 13:24-25Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Today is the 23rd of April and coming to you just outside of Richmond, heading back to Nashville, although by the time that you listen, we will back probably resting a little bit, but I realized now we’re going to hit it so I’ve gotta do this kind of on the way. So that’s where we’re at, coming to you live from the Hardin van. It’s not the first time though. We worked hard over the years...[More]

04/22/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:47:57 GMT

Joshua 24:1-33 ~ Luke 21:1-28 ~ Psalm 89:38-52 ~ Proverbs 13:20-23Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Greetings from Richmond, IN, yeah, the birthplace of sort of a bit of a legendary Christian artist. Rich Mullins was born here, so it’s cool to be here. Of course, he died. He was killed in 1997 in an automobile accident. I so remember that day. I know that’s not why we are here today at the Daily Audio Bible. I just so remember that. I was so entrenched in the music business and it was su...[More]

04/21/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:52:19 GMT

Joshua 22:21-23:16 ~ Luke 20:27-47 ~ Psalm 89:14-37 ~ Proverbs 12:17-18Today is the 21st of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and this is a special day. This is Daily Audio Bible Family Gathering Indiana Style, so not there yet. Got a long ways to go, but we’ll be there today. We’ll talk about that at the end. We’re reading this week, and this is the close of a week, from the New Living Translation. (Today’s Bible readings above.)Prayer: We thank you, Father, for another...[More]

04/20/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:12:28 GMT

Joshua 21:1-22:20 ~ Luke 20:1-16 ~ Psalm 89:1-13 ~ Proverbs 13:15-16Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible for the 20th of April. I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you today. Yeah, I mean it. I say it’s great to be here with you today every day, but it’s great to be here with you today. So we’ve been reading from the New Living Translation this week, that means today and tomorrow, although tomorrow we’re going to be heading out of town. That doesn’t change the translation we read from, but t...[More]

04/19/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:57:49 GMT

Joshua 19:1-20:9 ~ Luke 19:28-48 ~ Psalm 88:1-18 ~ Proverbs 13:12-14Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Today is the 19th of… Man, I almost said February. There is no logical reason. It’s April. It’s springtime. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m glad to be here. I’m assuming you’re glad to be here because you have every capability of just pushing off. So you must be glad to be here too. So we’re all glad to be here around God’s Word today. The New Living Translation is what we are r...[More]

04/18/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:55:12 GMT

Joshua 16:1-18:28 ~ Luke 19:1-27 ~ Psalm 87:1-7 ~ Proverbs 13:11Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Today is April the 18th. I’m Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today on a… Well, it’s a rainy day here in the very green, rolling hills of Tennessee. We’ve caught a chill in the air and so, yeah, I mean, I guess this is to be expected. We’ve had just some gorgeous spring weather, but the rains have come in and so that is how it is here today. I hope it is beautiful wherever you are. ...[More]

04/17/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:20:36 GMT

Joshua 15:1-63 ~ Luke 18:18-43 ~ Psalm 86:1-17 ~ Proverbs 13:9-10Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible for the 17th of April. I’m Brian, as I am every day. It is good to be here with you today. We’re reading from the New Living Translation this week, and we’re reading from the book of Joshua where the promised land is being conquered and distributed to God’s people. (Today’s Bible readings above.)So we pass this story in the gospel of Luke and there are kind of two adjacent stories that are so im...[More]

04/16/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:55:08 GMT

Joshua 13:1-14:15 ~ Luke 18:1-17 ~ Psalm 85:1-13 ~ Proverbs 13:7-8Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Today is the 6th of April. I’m Brian. How are you today? How is your day going? I’m having a good day. It’s really, really been pretty here in Tennessee. Took a drive, enjoyed the rolling hills. They are at their kind of perfect… I mean we have all these seasons, so perfect is sort of subjective, but for springtime, this is perfect. The leaves are out and they’re just fresh and new and l...[More]

04/15/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:02:54 GMT

Joshua 11:1-12:24 ~ Luke 17:11-37 ~ Psalm 84:1-12 ~ Proverbs 13:5-6Today is the 15th of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Welcome to a new week. We’re going to read this week from the New Living Translation, moving forward into the conquest of the promised land by the children of Israel in the book of Joshua. (Today’s Bible readings above.)Prayer: Father, we declare along with the psalmist what is true, you withhold no good thing from those who do what is right. There is great joy, ...[More]

04/14/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:32:12 GMT

Joshua 9:3-10:43 ~ Luke 16:19-17:10 ~ Psalm 83:1-18 ~ Proverbs 13:4Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. Today is the 14th of April and it is great to be here as we close a week down and prepare for another one as we move deeper and deeper into the springtime. We’re reading from the book of Joshua this week and we’ve been reading from the New King James Version, so today is the final day of the week. We’ll read from the New King James Version today and begin anew tomorrow with somethi...[More]

04/13/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:31:38 GMT

Joshua 7:16-9:2 ~ Luke 16:1-18 ~ Psalm 82:1-8 ~ Proverbs 13:2-3Today is the 13th of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and it is a lovely pleasure to be here with you today. I’ve gotta find new things to say. You know, if you’ve been here a long time, you hear me say the same things every day. It is a pleasure to be with you today. I just don’t know what else to say. I don’t have any creative brain-firing power today. It’s great to be here. I’m thrilled that we can be ar...[More]

04/12/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:43:10 GMT

Joshua 5:1-7:15 ~ Luke 15:1-32 ~ Psalm 81:1-16 ~ Proverbs 13:1Today is April 12. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and it is an honor to be with you today reading in this epic story of Joshua. I love this book. I love every book of the Bible. I just love this story. It is all of these struggles forward and all of these miraculous things that God did and we’re kind of on this fast track to the apex of the Jewish culture. Just beautiful story. Today, from the New King James Versi...[More]

04/11/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:25:03 GMT

Joshua 3:1-4:24 ~ Luke 14:7-35 ~ Psalm 80:1-19 ~ Proverbs 12:27-28Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Today is the 11th of April. I’m Brian. It’s wonderful to be here with you today. So we’ve been reading from the New King James Version this week. We just began. We’re just getting into the book of Joshua. (Today’s Bible readings above.)So Jesus says some remarkably contradictory things today it would seem, things that it would seem do not mesh or gel with his central message. What is he sa...[More]

The power of the hand-me-down, by Chet

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:00:48 GMT

"Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses." Moses, the great leader, is dead. But all is not lost or left up to chance, because something has been TRANSFERRED here. Joshua is not just trying to fill Moses' shoes, he has been brought up, trained, and most importantly (I think) entrusted with this responsibility. Someone told him, figuratively and literally, "You C...[More]

04/10/2012, by Daily Audio Bible Transcripts

25 — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:29:13 GMT

Deuteronomy 34:1-Joshua 2:24 ~ Luke 13:23-14:6 ~ Psalm 79:1-13 ~ Proverbs 12:26Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Today is April 10. I’m Brian. It is great to be here with you today. It is a special day. We’re finishing the book of Deuteronomy, so we’re finishing the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. I mean, can you believe it? We’re finishing the Pentateuch today. Well done! And here we are in the springtime and we’ll jump into the beautiful book of Joshua today. But for n...[More]

Anxiety in the heart..., by Chet

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:26:41 GMT

Last night my wife reminded meof how distracted I can be. There's often a "valid" reason for that distraction, and it often lies around trying to do far more than my heart and mind can handle at one time, whether that's having a conversation while doing dishes, talking about family while uploading graphics for a website, or meditating on a word from God while driving my car. It seems I'm always trying to squeeze the important things of my life into those "slow" moments, and even then, they get ...[More]

Rockefeller Habits: Mastering the Use of Core Values, by Chet

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:45:00 GMT

"A strong culture driven by a handful of rules (core values) makes leading people much easier, reduces the need for stacks of policies and procedures, gives everyone a foundation from which to make tough decisions, and generally brings simplicity and clarity to many of these "people" systems within a firm." My company's Core Values: Attentive Discovery - the products and services we have to sell are focused on our clients' needs and goals, not our own pre-determined understanding of wh...[More]

Rockefeller Habits: Mastering a One Page Strategic Plan, by Chet

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:38:00 GMT

Well for starters... www.gazelles.com is a great source of downloadable forms to walk you through what can seem like an elephant sized project... and remember - How do you eat an elephant? One. Bite. At. A. Time. "A Vision is a Dream with a Plan." "Nothing ever gets done in any organization until it shows up on somebody's weekly To Do list - and I do mean weekly! Quit thinking in monthly increments and drive all measurements, deadlines, and deliverables down to weekly increments. It may be p...[More]

I'm Going to Pick A Fight: A new take on Remind Me Who I Am, by Chet

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:51:00 GMT

I've written before about how much i liked Jason Gray's song, Remind Me Who I Am. It has been a great encouragement to me, and one of those affirming voices in the back of my head that helps me see God saying, "I'm proud of you, son," or simply, "I love you." However, after some time spent thinking this week and talking with my wife and some men I respect, I'm coming to a new perspective on this song, and others like it. It's holding me back. I've been able to step back and look at my life f...[More]

The Rockefeller Habits: Doing the Right Things Right, by Chet

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:10:00 GMT

I'm currently reading The Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish. I need a place to write down some things to come back to and my blog seems like a decent spot to do so. This book is certainly geared towards business leadeship, but as I read it I see applications for all areas of my life, whether I'm leading, following, supporting, or even just observing. Doing the Right Things Right "Figure out what basic needs you can fill for a certain group of customers in a way that differentiates you from...[More]

Chasing Peace, by Chet

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:13:00 GMT

Peace is one of those things that if you're not used to it, it can drive you crazy when it's actually present. We ask and pray for peace, and when it arrives, we freak out because we don't really want it. We want control. We want to know what's next. We want answers. But peace often leaves us hanging, because by it's very nature it involves giving up control to someone or something else that is better suited to deliver. I'm at a place in my life where I'm walking a bit of the tightrope betwe...[More]

Give me a pure heart, by Danny

1136 — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:47:52 GMT

Lord, take away my sin by the blood of Your son Jesus. Wash away all my transgression. Create in me a new heart. Amen![Complete Entry]

Interweaving personal and business blogs, by Chet

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:52:00 GMT

Small Biz Owners, I'm curious... if you use blogging to market your business but also love to blog / journal on the web, do you create two separate blogs, or somehow interweave them? Last night I spent some good time in front of the TV working on some marketing brainstorming that found its way into some marketing goal planning and obstacle discovering. My life feels like a complex interwoven web of tech, business, youth ministry and mentoring, and the occasional post about butchering chicken...[More]

The Manna Test, by jeweled

277 — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:58:05 GMT

Exodus 15:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow My instructions. 5 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on other days." Sometimes we wonder why we feel like we've been walking a long time with the Lord, and yet there are issues we deal with in our life that go ...[More]

Flipping the Org Chart, by Chet

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:38:00 GMT

I sat down with a friend that I have issues with yesterday afternoon. Yeah, issues. Got anyone like that in your life? Someone you love and care for deep down inside, but can't seem to get along with because of personality differences, orientations of the heart, or simply a difference in opinion over the best shade of blue? Yeah, I've got those kind of people in my life, too. The kind you want to fight for, but in the process of fighting for, often feel like you're fighting against. It's hard...[More]