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28 Jun 2015

Fix Your Mistakes Promptly

Submitted by Stephen Winters
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Character

We all make mistakes. But if we fix out mistakes immediately it's almst as though we never made the  mistake. This weekend we had gone camping on a friend's property. When we had finished camping and departed for home I left my camera at my frien's house. After we had arrived home my friend called and told me that I had left my camera at his house. He offered to drop if by my place after work on the next day. With that I began to think about how my camera would then be left in his car all day.

28 Jun 2015

A Gift of Camping

Submitted by Stephen Winters
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Daily Blog

We just got back from camping this weekend.  We have a friend who we've known from church for about 7 or 8 years.  Last weekend he had made his 12 acres available to the church for a camping weekend. Previous to the weekend he had spend countless hours mowing fields (to be used for parking and camping) pruning back many trails, hauling tables and chairs from the church, setting up a volleyball court and other games. However, it turned out that there were other church events happening during this same weekend.

26 Jun 2015

Is the Bible Reliable?

Submitted by Stephen Winters
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Bible

There has been much talk today about whether or not the Bible is the Word of God, whether or not the Bible is inerrant, authorative, the final authority in all things relatiing to faith... In this post I won't address any of those issues. The one issue I will address is if the Bible is reliable. But, before we can attempt to answer that question we must examine what we mean by reliable. First, let us look at what the dictionary says about the definiton of reliable:

18 Jun 2015

Without Grumbling and Complaining - Be Thankful

Submitted by Stephen Winters
Blogs: 
Character
Daily Blog

It seems that whenever I decide to develop a character trait in me that God brings a lot of circumstances into my life to test my resolve and to make it real in me. For instance, the latest principle is to do everything without grumbling and complaining . But how does one do that? So I have just been trying to refrain from grumbling but I still feel the  grumblies within me .

18 Jun 2015

Men: Finding Meaning and Significance

Submitted by Stephen Winters
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Character

Men want meaning and significance of their lives, however they often don't know how to achieve it. They think that they have to do something grandiose or that they have to make themselves look good or they try to win it by good personality . All those things are meaningless dribble. True meaning and significance can only be achieved by being real and honest about who you are and what you are doing. It is in learning to connect with people in a real and meaningful way, putting aside all pretense of trying to look good or trying to be the best.

17 Jun 2015

An Air Compressor, a New Friend, and a New Church

Submitted by Stephen Winters
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Daily Blog
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Men's group
Stephen's testimony

You never know where life is going to lead, or where the events of any day may take you. Great blessings often come out of seeming tragedies. Live each moment with integrety and honor (without grumbling and complaining) there are blessings waiting for you at any moment. I have an unusual story to tell.

13 Jun 2015

Game Night - The Hurricane Fan - Serving My Wife

Submitted by Stephen Winters
Blogs: 
Character
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serving your wife
putting self to death

Over the past two or three months I have been helping to plan a men's retreat . Part of the focus of the retreat, which was last weekend, was being men of character and learning to willingly serve our wives. As part of that I have been doing a lot of thinking about the type of husband that I want to be, which is to act kindly and considerately towards her at all times and to put her need before my own.

31 May 2015

Developing Character

Submitted by Stephen Winters

On every task I whether important or unimportant, you are training yourself to do quality work or sloppy work.

Your real life is the life that you live while you are working.

 

22 May 2015

The Only True Religion

Submitted by Stephen Winters

Today I was skimming the titles of my email inbox I saw a subject of "Do XXXXX Believe They Are The Only True Religion?" (I deleted the name of the religion because that is irrelevant.) The whole point about whether someone believes if they are the only true religion is not the question that you should be asking. Questions about which is the true religion OR "My religion is the true relgion" is all about human pride. It goes back to the childhood behavior of "My dad is bigger than your dad" OR my X is better than your X. That is childish and immature behavior.

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