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What We Don’t Know About Authenticity

Paula Wiseman | February 8, 2010

After a couple of weeks considering what authentic faith is, here’s my summary – we don’t know.
That’s not a cop-out answer. 1 John 3:2 says “Beloved, now we are the children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be [...]

Post Failure

Paula Wiseman | February 7, 2010

It was such a simple thing, and I’d done it dozens of times before… Schedule a blog post. Once it posts, a tweet is generated with a link to the post. Straightforward, uncomplicated… At least in theory.  Yesterday, the post missed its schedule. The tweet however, generated anyway with a link to a post that [...]

Do You Have the Answer?

Paula Wiseman | February 6, 2010

Door, Tinker, Jingle.  We played TriBond last night. The object is to figure out what each threesome has in common. Midway thru the game, it was Alan’s turn, and this was his question. He went totally blank. We tried everything to help him figure out the answer, short of telling him. Nothing worked. Finally we were [...]

Challenges

Paula Wiseman | February 5, 2010

Jesus had some real challenges in His ministry. We tend to think because He was God that everything clicked along smoothly. Everything DID click along according to plan, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it was smooth. He said we shouldn’t expect any better treatment than He got.  Reading Mark 3 this morning, I saw a [...]

Searching My Heart

Paula Wiseman | February 4, 2010

Search me O God and know my heart.
Search… Strong’s defines it as examine intimately, or penetrate. God shines His brilliant, all pervasive holiness into all the corners of my heart and mind. When He does that here’s what He finds
Hollow motives, times I’ve done what I “should” not because I wanted to, but because I [...]