October 2011 Blog Posts (16)

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What's the Difference between Kindness and Goodness? When a person achieves black belt at our Christian Academy of Martial Arts, they must "do" acts of kindness toward their family and loved ones.

Kindness, as I describe to my students, is doing something helpful without expectation for something in return. Taking out the trash, helping around the house, going the…

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You see it all the time, no one is immune to it, and we all have it - that pesky EGO. A book I'm reading, called "Lead Like Jesus," equates ego as one of two things.

1. Edge God Out (or)

2. ------ God Only

Fill in the blank, but hopefully it's synonymous with praising God and focusing only on him (Exalting God Only). By the grace of God, and God alone, has the martial arts ministry I'm…

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When I think of God, I often dwell on the miraculous things He did in the Old Testament. It’s easy for me to think, “God is so huge, so omniscient (all knowing), so powerful, and so busy; he can’t possibly be concerned about every minute detail of…

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Like all of you, I try to live me life as best I can – according to the Bible.  I pray, I go to church,  abide by the commandments (as best I can), I give of my time, money and effort.   This list of “doing right” could go on and on.  Yet, in my life, I still suffer.

At face value, you would think that “living…

I was cruising home tonight with my boy while jamming out to a song by the NewsBoyz, called "Born Again."  We were anxiously getting home to watch a movie and eat some dinner.  As we drove to the last turn, I noticed a homeless man sitting on the road.  He appeared to have been there for some time. 

As we made the turn, my head and heart began asking me "what are you doing..." you are singing a song about being reborn, and here you're more concerned about the movie you want to watch…

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The Discovery channel recently televised a show called "Curiosity," in which the topic of "Did God create the Universe" was discussed.  As you can imagine, removing God from the equation was the thesis of the work.  Utilizing mathematics, identifying different types of energy as the hypothesis for the big bang and starting point of the universe,…

If you've been in the arts for any length of time, or in business, you've probably heard a quote or two from the infamous book written by Sun Tzu, known as "The Art of War." 

I recall the Tuttle Publications version of the book I picked up many years ago, and dove right in.  Well, I stopped after reading the first sentence, as it was quite the attention grabber (especially for somebody who considers themself a Christian).  Here's the first line:

"Conflict is essential to the…

"Again Jesus said, 'Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you."

                                                                                                                    John 20:21-22

Have you ever entrusted someone to help you prepare for a fight…

Well I'm still here. Waiting for God's leading with RSMA. I have invested a ton of time and money. Not to mention my prayers and prayers and guess what more prayers. I still feel God leading me to do this. So why am I being attacked at every turn. Road block after road block. Pain in by body that I haven't felt sense my glory days in the Rangers or sense the surgery on my back,neck,skull, and brain. All that to say I so feel like Job. I feel abandoned by friends, and family. My closest…