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A Perfect Day

February 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments

“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 the [...]

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Everybody loves the Promised Land but nobody likes the trip

February 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments

“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

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

“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 of [...]

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Haiti Update

January 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments

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 rented a truck. [...]

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Haiti Relief

January 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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A Pottery Lesson

January 4th, 2010 · No Comments

“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 … but [...]

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Gifts of the Magi

December 18th, 2009 · No Comments

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 Della [...]

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Explaining Heaven to Bears

December 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

“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 well. [...]

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In Defense of Strays

September 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments

“So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.” (Genesis 2:20)
We’ve got a cat named ‘Baby’.
Let me back up. We’ve got four cats, six dogs, somewhere around fifty fish (the kind you feed, not the kind that feed you), and we’re house-parents [...]

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Groundhog Day

August 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it [...]

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‘Enough’ is an Illusion

July 30th, 2009 · No Comments

“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them” (Matthew 6:26)
Of all the times I’ve asked God to help me or to provide something for me, I don’t remember ever asking Him for someone I can help [...]

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The Five Covenants of God

July 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Tithing still remains a controversial issue in the church, even though I straightened everything out two weeks ago. Boy, I wish more people would read this letter.
Amidst the many comments I received from “Forget About Tithing” was one from T___.
“… I did read what you said about tithing but it has been [...]

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The Cost of Being Perfect

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments

“Jesus answered, ‘If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come follow me.’” (Matthew 19:21)

Hmmm …
How about just being good? How much does that cost?
The passage at the top of this letter comes from a conversation Jesus had with a [...]

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Discovering Oil in Israel

July 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

PURPOSEVol. 2, Issue 25June 29, 2008The Great Treasure Hunt“‘But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home. I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plo…

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Money Part 3

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Purpose

Vol. 2 Issue 14 April 7, 2008
The weekly newsletter of True Potential Publishing
Money Part 3
Thanks for your patience while I was away.
Elaine and I were out all of last week at an “equipping the saints” conference. It wasn’t really named “equipping the saints,” but you know what I mean. It was a conference for Christians [...]

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