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Restoring Friendship and Shared Purpose: A Two-Way Commitment
Friendship, like any meaningful relationship, isn’t always easy to maintain. Over time, misunderstandings creep in, wounds form, and distance grows where there was once closeness. Sometimes it happens slowly, like a leak in a boat that you don’t notice until you’re...
Wrestling with Leviticus: What the Bible is Teaching Me About Women, Leadership, and Change
Introduction: A Personal Journey Through Scripture As I walk through the Bible, I find myself wrestling with its words—including when it comes to the roles of women. Some passages in Leviticus make me pause, feeling as if they push women down. But as I dig deeper, I...
The First Heartbeat: A Reflection on the Resurrection
The First Breath of Resurrection In the stillness of my thoughts, I find myself drawn to the tomb. I imagine sitting there, surrounded by darkness, waiting in the silence, wondering what might come next. It’s not just an exercise in imagination—it’s something deeper,...
The Curious Case of the Cursed Fig Tree: Part Two
The Curious Case of the Cursed Fig Tree: Part Two What I Learned About Moving Mountains [Part one is here] I started the day thinking about Jesus and that fig tree. It stuck with me—how He approached it, saw the leaves, expected fruit, and found nothing. How He cursed...
The Power of Words: Understanding Intent, Impact, and Evolution
The Power of Words: Understanding Intent, Impact, and Evolution Introduction Once upon a time, in a small town, there was a teenager named Alex. During a heated argument at school, Alex blurted out, "Damn you, you're always in my way!" The words hung in the air,...
The Curious Case of the Cursed Fig Tree: Posers, Fruit, and Faith
The Curious Case of the Cursed Fig Tree: Posers, Fruit, and Faith Once upon a time—because all good stories start that way—there was a tree. Not just any tree, but a fig tree. And not just any fig tree, but one that became an object lesson straight from the mouth of...
How AI in Creative Works Will Reshape Culture—Just Like Digital Music Did
The rise of AI in creative fields—whether writing, art, music, or film—is already causing a seismic shift, much like the digital music revolution did in the early 2000s. When Napster and file-sharing services burst onto the scene, they upended the music industry...
Reading Facebook Page and Group Posts with C#
Prompts: Is there an api that my program can use to monitor / read posts from a public page on facebook? Write me a c# example of both, please, that would build c# objects from the posts that meet a commont interface Response: Here’s a C# example that fetches posts...
PR Standards Automation
Prompt: In an Azure based project written in C# and using DevOps Repos for code and DevOps Pipelines for releases, is there a way to make sure pull requests pass standards tests in an automated fashion, including specifically "if a method's signature has parameters...
From Chaos to Clarity: Building a Scalable and Efficient Software Development Workflow
From Chaos to Clarity: Building a Scalable and Efficient Software Development Workflow Disclaimer: This is a working document that I’m developing as part of my leadership role to refine our software development workflow. It’s an evolving strategy that I’m actively...
Tending the Garden of Your Heart: Insights from the Parable of the Soils
Have you ever tried to plant something, only to realize your backyard is more rock quarry than garden? The parable of the soils, found in Mark 4:1-20 and also in Matthew 13 and Luke 8, is a bit like that—except instead of plants, it's about the seeds of faith in our...
Navigating Two-Hour Delays: A Midwest Superintendent’s Guide
Midwest winters are like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get! One day, it's a gentle snowfall; the next, it's an ice rink, and sometimes it's a blizzard with sideways wind. For superintendents, deciding on a two-hour delay can feel like a...
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From Solo Sips to Shared Cups: Rethinking Communion and Community
This past Sunday in church, as I held my tiny plastic cup of juice and the world’s least flavorful wafer, I couldn’t help but wonder—was this communion or just a solo snack break? What’s meant to be a deeply communal act felt surprisingly individual. Looking around, I...
Manipulation vs. Persuasion: The Intent That Changes Everything
Influence is a powerful tool. It shapes decisions, changes minds, and moves people to action. But there’s a stark difference between persuasion and manipulation—and that difference comes down to intent. At their core, both involve guiding someone toward a choice. The...
The Blessing of an Invitation
There’s something deeply meaningful about being invited out. So often, I find myself in the role of the initiator—reaching out, planning, making sure time is set aside to enjoy relationships. And while I love doing that, there’s a special kind of blessing in being on...
The Hard Days of Convergence
There are moments in life when we look up and realize we’re on a completely different page from someone else—a client, a friend, a spouse, a coworker. And in that realization, a question rises: "How did we get here?" In hindsight, we can sometimes pinpoint moments...
