Got Potential? https://gotpotential.org You bet you do. You were created for a unique and eternal purpose. Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:51:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Practice the present moment https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/practice-the-present-moment https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/practice-the-present-moment#respond Thu, 07 Jan 2021 13:29:00 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=591 https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/practice-the-present-moment/feed 0 Begin with the End in Mind https://gotpotential.org/site-news/begin-with-the-end-in-mind https://gotpotential.org/site-news/begin-with-the-end-in-mind#respond Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:20:46 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=576 https://gotpotential.org/site-news/begin-with-the-end-in-mind/feed 0 Obedience vs. Proactivity https://gotpotential.org/site-news/obedience-vs-proactivity https://gotpotential.org/site-news/obedience-vs-proactivity#respond Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:00:01 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=572 https://gotpotential.org/site-news/obedience-vs-proactivity/feed 0 The Definition of Success https://gotpotential.org/site-news/definition-of-success https://gotpotential.org/site-news/definition-of-success#respond Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:12:04 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=568 For the last two weeks I’ve been promising you twelve keys to a truly successful life; but all I’ve shared with you are two commandments from the Bible. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” I also […]

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How Big is Your Neighborhood? https://gotpotential.org/site-news/how-big-is-your-neighborhood https://gotpotential.org/site-news/how-big-is-your-neighborhood#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 13:25:45 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=556 Last week I gave you the number one rule for a truly successful life: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” Here’s rule number two: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” It’s an old one. I bet you’ve heard it already … but do […]

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The One Thing https://gotpotential.org/site-news/the-one-thing https://gotpotential.org/site-news/the-one-thing#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 14:28:49 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=548 Remember the movie “City Slickers”? Three guys facing middle age and accompanying crises, wanting to reassess their lives, embark on a two week cattle drive – a sort of hyper-dude-ranch, real cowboy experience for ‘city slickers’. During the drive, one city slicker, ‘Mitch’ rides along with tough as nails cowboy ‘Curly’, and Curly shares with […]

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Why Am I Doing This? https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/why-am-i-doing-this https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/why-am-i-doing-this#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 12:52:39 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=544 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart …” (Jeremiah 1:5) I missed sending out a ‘Purpose Weekly’ letter last week. Elaine and I went away for four days so I could write … ironic, isn’t it? There’s a book I’ve been putting off for […]

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One Mustard Seed https://gotpotential.org/love/one-mustard-seed https://gotpotential.org/love/one-mustard-seed#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:14:22 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=540 “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches” (Luke 13:18) Elaine and I are going on a little camping […]

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Jesus and the Third Grader https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/jesus-and-the-third-grader https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/jesus-and-the-third-grader#respond Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:13:31 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=533 Last week I told you about my friend Roger and that Roger’s son, Eric, died as child, unexpectedly. That was twenty-five years ago; Roger hasn’t ‘gotten over it’ but he has learned to live with it. The promise that has allowed him to come to terms with the tragedy is that he knows he will, […]

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When a Child Dies https://gotpotential.org/heaven/when-a-child-dies https://gotpotential.org/heaven/when-a-child-dies#respond Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:18:54 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=519 I like to think I’m pretty good with words, but a few times in my life I’ve been speechless. At those moments anything I could have thought to say would have been less than required. Words of advice or comfort or empathy would have been wooden and miserably weak. There wasn’t a thing I could […]

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Wes Smith in Haiti … the rest of the story https://gotpotential.org/site-news/wes-haiti-rest-of-the-story https://gotpotential.org/site-news/wes-haiti-rest-of-the-story#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:01:14 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=510 I hadn’t heard from Wes Smith in a while. Remember Wes? I wrote about him and his Haiti rescue team deploying do the earthquake ravaged island right after the tragic event. You can review the posts here: “Haiti Relief, January 17” and “Haiti Update, January 18” Haiti team member John Fussle commented on the follow […]

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Running with the Wind https://gotpotential.org/site-news/running-with-the-wind https://gotpotential.org/site-news/running-with-the-wind#respond Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:04:00 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=499 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 I’m a […]

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A Perfect Day https://gotpotential.org/site-news/a-perfect-day https://gotpotential.org/site-news/a-perfect-day#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:01:18 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=480 “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on […]

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Everybody loves the Promised Land but nobody likes the trip https://gotpotential.org/site-news/the-promised-land https://gotpotential.org/site-news/the-promised-land#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:52:19 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=474 “The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud.” (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy) I’ve been to Israel a half dozen times in the last few years. You’d think it would get old after so many visits … it doesn’t. There’s something about Israel, the Promised Land, that’s different from any […]

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Time Travel https://gotpotential.org/site-news/time-travel https://gotpotential.org/site-news/time-travel#respond Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:49:40 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=467 “I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:2) I remember watching a movie as a boy; “The Time Machine”. The movie, I later discovered, was loosely based on the H.G Wells book of the same name. The movie version has been remade a couple […]

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Haiti Update https://gotpotential.org/site-news/haiti-update https://gotpotential.org/site-news/haiti-update#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:36:35 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=464 Wes Smith (who I wrote about yesterday) Filed an update last night and today. They’re on the ground and working! I wish the big guys could move as fast. Please, please, please, keep Wes’s team in your prayers. Here’s the update: January 18 update: Efficiency, Speed, and Simplicity: The Haitian believers at Lloyd’s mission have […]

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Haiti Relief https://gotpotential.org/site-news/haiti-relief https://gotpotential.org/site-news/haiti-relief#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:42:49 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=459 On Tuesday January 12, at 4:53 PM local time a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, its epicenter 15 miles west-southwest of the city, struck Port-Au-Prince Haiti. By now you you know that. On Saturday Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, Haiti’s interior minister told Reuters. “We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies. We anticipate there will be between 100,000 […]

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A Pottery Lesson https://gotpotential.org/site-news/a-pottery-lesson https://gotpotential.org/site-news/a-pottery-lesson#respond Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:17:16 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=447 “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand …” Jeremiah 18:6 I’ve been reading in Jeremiah for the last few weeks – boy is it a tough book. A lot of folks avoid Jeremiah; they think it’s too difficult to understand, too depressing and too long. They’re right … […]

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Gifts of the Magi https://gotpotential.org/site-news/gifts-of-the-magi https://gotpotential.org/site-news/gifts-of-the-magi#respond Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:54:32 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=443 By O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times […]

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Explaining Heaven to Bears https://gotpotential.org/site-news/explaining-heaven-to-bears https://gotpotential.org/site-news/explaining-heaven-to-bears#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:13:15 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=437 “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14) At True Potential Publishing, we’ve been checking into making all of our printed books available in e-book format as […]

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One Oil Drum at a Time https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/oil-drum https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/oil-drum#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:22:41 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=430 “In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed.” (Exodus 15:13) I once heard a story about two young men who made a goal of riding through the Sahara Desert on motorcycles. There aren’t a lot of street signs in the Sahara and this was long before the days of GPS devices. […]

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“ye are gods” Part 2 https://gotpotential.org/stars/ye-are-gods-part-2 https://gotpotential.org/stars/ye-are-gods-part-2#respond Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:04:55 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=426 “How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount […]

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Ye Are Gods? https://gotpotential.org/last-days/ye-are-gods https://gotpotential.org/last-days/ye-are-gods#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:59:37 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=411 “They know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. “I said, ‘You are “gods”; you are all sons of the Most High.’ But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler.” (Psalm 82:5-7) I read Dan Brown’s new book The Lost […]

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The La-Z-Boy https://gotpotential.org/purpose/la-z-boy https://gotpotential.org/purpose/la-z-boy#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:03:36 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=408 By Jenny Lou Jones With the birth of our first child, Lance told me that he’d help me rock our new baby to sleep if only I’d agree to buy a La-Z-Boy.  His argument was that all decent and caring fathers had one thing in common—a big, boxy wad of material that calls itself a […]

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Cracks in the Sidewalk https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/sidewalk https://gotpotential.org/gods-purpose/sidewalk#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:07:49 +0000 https://gotpotential.org/?p=405 By Jenny Lou Jones During my elementary years, I walked home after school.   Well, it was more like I lollygagged and meandered, especially down the big hill that ended at my house.  That last perilous slope was littered with cracks in the sidewalk that I had to avoid to keep my mother’s back intact.  Where […]

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