February 2011 Blog Posts (17)

1. Deeds, Claims, and Promises of Jesus.

Read Luke Chapter 8



1. In the parable of the sower the seed is______________.





2. After rebuking the wind and calming the raging of the

water, Jesus said unto them: Where is your____________.





3. After Jesus cast the demons out of the madman of

Gadara He told him to ______________to his own…

Diego Sanchez interviews about his upcoming main event UFC fight against Martin Kampmann March 3. Airing on Versus.

Dana WhiteTalks UFC 127 from Sydney Australia -Courtesy of UFC via Penny Buffington @ pennyjomma.com executive producer of…

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This past week, I began introducing the new kids to off balancing techniques for their upcoming throws, and it was rather interesting to watch how some of the kids are "wolves in sheep's clothing."

While doing other, more individual activities, they focus and appear to do the technique with 100% effort. However,…

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How do you "play" your martial arts training?  More importantly, how do you "play" your every day life?  If you read my blog post on "being transformed," I'm going to pull this particular  consideration into that lesson by the end.

IHere's what I mean: Do you play martial arts as if it were tic-tac-toe?  Do you play , or train in martial arts, as if it were…

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If you've studied the arts for any length of time, you've probably come across a term known as "mushin."  At first glance, it seems to be a rather escoteric idea.  "No mind" is often the connotation people equate to the term. 

However, "mu shin" is more akin to total awareness of everything…

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Believe it or not, I'm not trying to get the "Old McDonald Had a Farm" song stuck in your head.  I'm really talking about the slippery-slope of how and why we do the things we do....

Every day, we are confronted with situations where we may be asked to "tweak" or "fudge" a little here, a little…

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After watching close to 1000 students learn to tie their belt, I can honestly say there probably aren't many experiences that evoke the same emotion or confidence.  Sure, testing for future belts, winning tournaments and trophies are terrific, confidence boosting…

So some of us have a good christian background, a relationship with God,we pray everyday, we get to church on sundays and not to mention we read our bibles, study and seek the Lord. There is nothing we find fake about our faith. We don't do these things to impress anyone, we don't pray out of selfishness,we don't go to church to say Hey everyone we go to church. Some of us are truly certified christians and we also really love the Lord. Then we have the days where our faith gets lazy, we may…

Don't you just hate that! BACKSLIDDEN!!! Paul talks about it in the book of romans,how he does the things that he dosent wanna do but he see that its not him but the flesh warring against the spirit.I find myself in the same situation daily! were i wont even pray or open my  bible.And when i repent i know im going do again so i feel, like im asking for forgiveness out of ritual!! I was told its not how you start but how you finish--2 the Death!! this fight in the flesh is to the death and i…