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Year of Living Courageously: Pastor’s Edition – May 13

If you're a pastor in the Twin Cities area, you won't want to miss out on a very unique opportunity for some serious goal setting. On Thursday, May 13th, I will be conducting, for the first time, a pastors-only version of the highly-regarded Year of Living Courageously workshop.
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Thought for the Day – G. MacDonald on Failure

Failure is a master teacher if it has a willing student.”- Gordon MacDonald

Attempting anything new, anything worthwhile, involves failure. Toddlers, for instance, don’t learn to walk without falling—a lot. As children, we didn’t even think of these setbacks as failure. We were willing students with encouraging parents to […]

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Year of Living Courageously: November 14

Over the years, my wife and I developed a habit of getting away the day after Thanksgiving to map out our goals for the upcoming year. For us, it’s a perfect time to think strategically about the future having just given thanks for the past.

But a few years […]

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Congratulations on Your Recent Contraction!

Can you imagine that headline on a greeting card? Unless you’re giving it to a pregnant woman, it wouldn’t make any sense. Even then, you’d likely get your head kicked in if she were in hard labor. Or, how about a card that says, “Well done on your recent […]

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