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Have you walked past a group of young people sitting at a coffee shop recently only to see all of them looking at their smartphones. They have gathered at a “third space” to hang out, but let their phones interfere with the people sitting around the table with them. If you have seen this, then you will…

Every summer hikers of all ages climb the 14,000 ft mountains in Colorado. Beverly Wedeistedt was 55 when she summited one of those fourteeners, Gray’s Peak. At the top she felt a pop in her knee and tumbled to the ground. A doctor who was present on the trail diagnosed a torn ACL and fashioned a makeshift…

In his book, We Are All Weird, Seth Godin writes, “If you persist in trying to be all things to all people, you will fail. The only alternative, then, is to be something important to a few people.” -- We Are All Weird (p. 53). Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (CEV) “You are better off…

It took online gamers to achieve a breakthrough that had eluded scientists for a decade. In a recently published article, gamers and researchers announced they have deciphered a key structure of an AIDS-like virus. They claim understanding the structure of an enzyme will help scientists understand the…

Mechanical engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology published a report detailing the remarkable behavior of a group of ants in water. When dropped on to the surface of the water, a temporary cushion of air sounds the single ant, helping it float for a small period. When scientists drop a group…

Aaron was happy being alone. His trips into the western wilderness areas were usually by himself. Then came the day when an 800-pound boulder fell and trapped his right arm. Alone, with no hope of rescue, no one even knew where he was, he endured 127 hours of entrapment. He finally broke the bone, cut…

LEADERSHIP In Managing Change to Reduce Resistance, Lila Booth, writes, “A change process must be participatory in order to succeed. People need a chance to express their assessment of the current situation, their hopes and anxieties about the process, their recommendations about how to proceed.” --…

FRIENDS In his book, The Shape of Faith to Come, Brad Waggoner writes, “Church practices vary. No congregation is exactly like another. Facilitating fellowship, however, does not have to be hard. We must get past the idea of a ‘friendly church’ to the concept of a ‘church of friends.’” --Shape of Faith…

When you help support your pastor, you are helping support the Lord’s work. To highlight its annual picnic one year, a company rented two racing shells and challenged a rival company to a boat race. The rival company accepted. On the day of the picnic, everyone entered into the spirit of the event. Women…

"Teamwork always beats individual greatness." Bob Zuppke "It’s easy to find great players. What’s hard is getting people to play as a team. That’s the selling job." Chuck Daly "Success is based on what the team does, not how you look." Knute Rockne "The team itself must be the leader of the team." Phil…

COMMUNITY In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell writes, “Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.” -- Outliers: The Story of Success, 119 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson For more information on Outliers go to:…

A Three-starnd Cord Matthew 18:15-20 A cord of three strands is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12). That makes sense, doesn’t it? We have probably all at one time braided three strands of something together and then been amazed at the strength that it took to separate them. It is the principle…

My reflections {Geo Knox},usually weekly, will focus on the Lord's Supper with occasional comments on other topics, such as books I am reading, or thoughts inspired by something I have read. HOW MUCH DID JESUS WEIGH? How much do you think Jesus weighed? I imagine him as being about 5' 10" and maybe 142…

Unity I brought some thread with me this morning. How hard do you think it is to break this piece of string? Pretty easy. Watch what happens when we put several pieces of string together. Hard to break it. The bible tells us that one person can be easily overpowered by the devil. But when we stick together…

RELATIONSHIPS Twenty-four year old Sky was a creative, artistic, intelligent thinker who majored in photography at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He had an introverted personality, and was wearing a polyester retro-artist suit, sporting extended sideburns when he was introduced at Graceland…

HELP Two lost hikers survived three nights in the San Jacinto Mountains of California after they stumbled on the campsite of a man who disappeared a year ago. Brandon Day and Gina Allen were rescued when searchers spotted smoke from a fire the couple started using matches scavenged from a backpack they…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…