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IF – Part 6

VIDEO AUDIO   SYNOPSIS Once someone lowers the bar, it seems that most people are more than happy to crawl under it. If we have a dispute with someone and they do something not nice to attack, we feel that we’re justified in doing the same thing because we’re just evening the score. It’s really […]

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IF – Part 5

VIDEO AUDIO SYNOPSIS People use the word “hate” far too often. “I hate broccoli, I hate that movie, I hate my job, “I hate Mondays,” and on and on ad nauseam. The word “hate” is defined as “to dislike to the point of taking action against.” Wow!  “To take action against” — that’s heavy. The word […]

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IF – Part 3

VIDEO AUDIO SYNOPSIS Neil Patrick Harris’s character Barney on “How I met your mother” loves to split words in half for emphasis. For example, he’ll say, “Let’s get dressed and go out tonight.  It’s going to be LEGEND… wait for it….DARY!” When Barney does this his friends roll their eyes in irritation. Why?  Because NOBODY […]

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IF – Part 2

VIDEO   AUDIO https://WillBowen.podbean.com/mf/play... SYNOPSIS “If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,  But make allowance for their doubting too.” It’s been said time and again that one of the most difficult things to do is to trust our own inner voice. It’s far too easy to follow along with the herd of […]

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If – Part 1

VIDEO AUDIO SYNOPSIS My mom gave me a card for my 17th birthday. It was one of those nice, elegant-but-fun cards created by Hallmark. I got a bunch of cards that day and because the one my mom gave me was dense with text I set it aside to read later. Lying in bed that […]

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Love is – Part 26

VIDEO AUDIO https://WillBowen.podbean.com/mf/play... SYNOPSiS And now these three remain Faith, Hope, and Love. But the greatest of these if love. Paul wrote this letter to the people of Corinth (located in what we’d now call south-central Greece) where he’d founded a church just a few years previous. So, as we conclude this series let’s perhaps consider […]

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IF – Part 4

VIDEO AUDIO   SYNOPSIS When people are attacked, they respond. Even people who are naturally passive and non-confrontational will, when pushed hard enough, strike back. It’s a natural defense mechanism. We even do this when attacked with lies. Someone tells a lie about us and we become almost obsessed wanting to respond with lies about […]

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Love is – Part 25

VIDEO AUDIO SYNOPSIS Life is a mirror. What you see when you look out of your eyes is different than what I or anyone else sees. Because, you see what hs first inside of you. If inside of you there is beauty and joy and peace, then you’ll see that when you look into the […]

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Love is – Part 24

VIDEO   AUDIO SYNOPSIS My great mentor, Earl Nightingale, told a great story of two men who nearly collided at an intersection. One of the men was in his 20s and the other was in his 70s. Following the near collision, the old man screamed and cursed at the younger man. The young man listened […]

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Love is – Part 23

Think about being a loving person as a bracelet. The bracelet is comprised of beautiful beads with names like patience, kindness, understanding, forgiveness, restraint, and more. The beads are all connected. So, what happens when one bead — just one, is missing? That’s right, the bracelet falls off. To be loving is to strive for […]

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