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When Your World Caves In: Handling Crisis

August 25, 2017
Keith Waggoner
Attitude, Mentoring, Motivation, Relationships, Results
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Hundreds of ministers have admitted that when they get the phone call with the sobbing, furious, or panicked person on the other line, they do not know what to say.  Too many times, all they can muster is “I’m sorry”, or “It will be alright”, or some sort of sermon or lecture. After 16 years of ministry, counseling and congregational development, I have found that most church leaderships are overwhelmed when dealing with crises in their own congregations. There are…

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Who is God?

August 15, 2017
Keith Waggoner
Faith
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Most people try to grasp some sense of God by taking the best versions of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn’t much, and then call that “GOD”. While it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who God really is. God is not merely the best version of us that we can think of. God is far more than that,…

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Selfishness vs. Gratefulness

August 9, 2017
Keith Waggoner
Attitude, Faith, Life Coaching
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It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly…

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TOP Elite Special Forces Military Groups of all time

August 3, 2017
Keith Waggoner
Faith, Military, Mission
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TIME magizine recently published an article about the TOP Elite Special Forces Military Groups of all time. You can read this article at http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2069886_2069891_2069944,00.html #ixzz1MAvIUlk5. I found this article very interesting. Perhaps TIME is correct that these are the “greatest” elite teams ever. However, possibly to be politically correct, or simply because our modern culture has forgetten, TIME has left out the Most Elite of the Elite who have ever been. I believe the most elite ever was the God…

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