Mark 8:31-32 The more difficult the news is to hear, the more difficult it is to hear. Really bad news often gets jumbled in the mind of the person hearing the news because the brain goes into survival mode. Hearing the additional information is not as important as surviving. “Your hair is on fire…”Continue reading “Missing the Obvious”
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Uncomfortable News
Mark 8:31-9:1 Have you ever received uncomfortable news? I am talking about news that makes you squirm a little bit. The squirm could be because of imagined physical discomfort or anticipated moral discomfort. The squirm could be for you or for someone else. Uncomfortable news is news you would rather not hear. IContinue reading “Uncomfortable News”
Obfuscation
Mark 8:29-30 One of the modern tactics in politics and even in internet marketing is to flood the media with misinformation. If you get too many bad reviews of your services on the internet you can hire a firm to flood you site with hundreds of fake reviews that will bury the bad review.Continue reading “Obfuscation”
The Next …
Mark 8:27-28 Opinion polls can tell us something about what people are thinking. There is a whole science about polling that I don’t completely understand. But, perhaps, I am not alone. Even the best pollsters get the results wrong. Even the worst get it right sometimes. So many factors determine the results. Even pollsterContinue reading “The Next …”
Who?
Mark 8:27-30 One of the important questions that everyone must answer is, “Who am I?” Who am I in relationship to my ‘self’, my family, my world, and in relationship with the LORD. The answers to these questions direct the rest of life. If I am just the result of an accidental lightening strikeContinue reading “Who?”
Straight Home
Mark 8:25-26 Golf is a game of strategy. Of course the goal is to get the ball into the cup with the least number of strokes. Sometimes you don’t drive directly toward the pin. Sometimes you drive to a better position rather than to shortest yardage. You use your drive to set up yourContinue reading “Straight Home”
Walking Trees
Mark 8:23-24 I often wonder how other people see the world. I assume that people see trees the same way I see them, that green looks green and brown looks brown. But I don’t really know. How do you really know what other people are seeing? I know that we can see the sameContinue reading “Walking Trees”
Two Stages
Mark 8:22-26 Cancer treatments often happen in stages. There might be an initial operation and then chemo or radiation treatments follow. Rarely does one treatment take care of the issues. This can be very frustrating for those going through the treatments, and for those who love and care for them. Instead of having theContinue reading “Two Stages”
Pointing Out the Obvious
Mark 8:17-21 Sometimes in life you just have to be straight forward and point out the obvious that someone is missing. We have to point out the elephant in the room. We must tell people that the king has no clothes. Sometimes we even have to be willing to tell the king. Or thatContinue reading “Pointing Out the Obvious”
No Bread
Mark 8:16 Have you ever noticed that sometimes our conversations are about something that has absolutely no real importance? The Web is filled with relatively meaningless junk. Think about the funny videos you have watched. What was the eternal value connected to the moments you spent watching them? Or endless ‘conversations’ on FaceBook, orContinue reading “No Bread”
The Arnold Journey 