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Bass on Sabbath

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Rest and worship. One day a week -  not much, in a sense, but a good beginning. One day to resist the tyranny of too much or too little work and to celebrate with God and others, remembering thereby who we really are and what is really important. One day that, week after week, anchors a way of life that makes a difference every day. (p. 43)Bass, D. C. (1997, Sep 01). … [Read more...] about Bass on Sabbath

The Power of Expectations

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How powerful are expectations? Very. We feed on the expectations of others. Consider this example: The tendency to see in others what we've been led to expect takes its name from Shaw's play [Pygmalion]. Called the Pygmalion effect, it's nicely suited to controlled experiments. In one of the best-known experimental investigations of the Pygmalion effect, Robert Rosenthal … [Read more...] about The Power of Expectations

The Discipline of Retreat

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This weekend the students at our church participate in our annual fall retreat. It is easy to think of a fall retreat as an event. But we try to think of our fall retreat as a spiritual discipline. M. Robert Mulholland Jr. (1993) describes retreat in these terms: Retreat is the discipline of setting apart a time, individually or corporately, to step aside from the … [Read more...] about The Discipline of Retreat

Hidden Hurts

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Somedays it feels like the world is winning.Somedays word reaches you of a person now gone.Some deep struggle now done, now over. Good-bye.And you never knew.You had seen them around, in passing. Maybe you waved. Maybe you were in a hurry, so you looked the other way. But they were drowning, and you didn't know."Most men lead lives of quiet … [Read more...] about Hidden Hurts

Don’t Stop Now

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Several years ago I trained for a marathon. The first time I ran six miles I remember panting and thinking, "How will I ever run 26?" I was spent after my first long day. My legs ached. An hour of running seemed so long. But I kept running. I wasn't very fast. My body creaked and cracked. And I moaned and groaned through the opening weeks. But I kept running. I … [Read more...] about Don’t Stop Now

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