mickholt
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May 4, 2014
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God's Will
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Bible, Character, Christ, God's will, grace, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, mercy
**NOTE** Not only is today National Star Wars day – May the Fourth be with you – it is also the one year anniversary of mickholt.com. I have learned a lot over the last year but still struggle with some questions – as you’ll read below. Thank you, to everyone that reads PADAG regularly, has read in the past or will be reading this for the first time – I hope you find something of value here and if so, I would love if you joined in – or started – the conversation below. Be blessed and I look forward to building this community.
Y’all keep the acorn spinnin’
#dontbreakthechain
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Ecclesiastes 3: 1- 8 (KJV)
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
mickholt
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January 31, 2014
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God's Will, Jesus
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Bible, God's Grace, God's will, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John's Gospel
How many times do we take on a challenge and see it through?
I mean really? For me, not often. Not often enough.
Today I reached the end of a 31 day writing challenge and honestly, thinking back to the first of January, I didn’t think I’d complete this one.
The challenge was to write at least 500 words a day for the month. Those were the rules. I didn’t have to write a book, blog post, poem, letter or anything that even made sense – I had several of those nights – the idea was just to get into the habit of writing.
I did it.
mickholt
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September 27, 2013
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God's Will
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Bible, Christ, Facebook, God's will, Gospel of Matthew, grace, mercy, Satan
I don’t mean to brag but I am on Facebook – a lot!
See nothing to brag about there. In fact, I should probably cut back some of my “facebooking” – I love how we’ve turned a social media site into a part of speech.
VERB! That’s what’s happening.
The more time I spend mindlessly scrolling through what my friends from high school did over the weekend and who is seeing what movie the more I am aware of how it is used as a means to express your personal feeling and beliefs. You can freely rail against Liberals, openly assail the Tea Party, support this cause or that, post a picture for an hour to raise awareness for Autism, MS and the need for the BUCS to dump their failing…TEAM.
OK – I wanted to get mine in there too.
mickholt
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September 11, 2013
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God's Will
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9-11, Bible, Dunns River Falls, God's will, grace, Jamaica, mercy, Ocho Rios, Prayer, September 11, World Trade Center
We spent the entire afternoon of the third day on our honeymoon in our room. Paying careful attention to every single detail. Holding each other a though our lives depended on it – and in a way they did.
I don’t think we went down for dinner until it was almost too late to eat. I cannot even remember, honestly if we ate – how could we? We were exhausted.
mickholt
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July 10, 2013
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God's Will
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Bible, Fear, God, Jesus, Worry
Photo By: JustUptown (Creative Commons)
OK, so, I worry. I worry all the time. I worry about the things I can control, sort of. I worry about the things I cannot control – which are most things.
I worry that I will never have a job I even remotely like. I worry that I will always feel inferior at the J-O-B I currently trudge through every day. I worry that I have missed every opportunity God has placed before me. I worry that people won’t like me if they know the things about me that God already knows.
I worry that people will not read this or the next 59 posts.
I worry that people will not laugh.
Did I say I worry? Boy was that an understatement.
mickholt
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July 8, 2013
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God's Will
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Bible, Christ, Christianity, Christianity for Seekers, God, God's will, prosperity, prosperity gospel, Religion and Spirituality
Photo By: Adam Arthur (Creative Commons)
Don’t you just love the “prosperity” gospel? It is so motivating and full of hope and joy.
That is until you realize that you’re not getting the things you’ve been told you’ll get.
Wait, where is my new car? New job? New house? The promotion that I don’t deserve in the first place?
mickholt
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July 1, 2013
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God's Will, Jesus
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Aaron Hernandez, Bible, DOMA, Faith, forgiveness, grace, Mötley Crüe, Paula Deen, Supreme Court
Photo By: Colin_K (Creative Commons)
Man was last week a stressful week?
The odd thing was, for me, that it was not stressful in the way I would normally define stress.
From the Supreme Court to the Zimmerman trial to Paula Dean and the Aaron Hernandez situation it was an opinionated person’s dream and nightmare – all at the same time. I cannot count on both hands how many times I wanted to write something about ANY of these topics only to get to a point where a voice said “no, you cannot say this – this way.”
mickholt
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June 17, 2013
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Uncategorized
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Bible, Bible Study, Christ, God, grace, Jesus, mercy, Potato chips
Food For Thought
Photo By: The Delicious Life (Creative Commons)
There is nothing I like more than a good bag of chips. Nothing is more satisfying that digging into a fresh bag of salty slices of deep fried potato. I could easily sit and consume an entire bag without giving it or life a single thought.
I like plain chips – with ridges not flat, except Pringles. I like spicy chips, salty chips, chips with cheese and I really like BBQ chips. Recently, I discovered “kettle cooked” chips and let me just say, “where’s the next bag?”
No, really!
mickholt
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May 22, 2013
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Uncategorized
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Bible, God, HolySpirit, Jesus, Jonah, Satan, temptation
I believe everything the Bible says. I believe you can trust it in its entirety.
Yes, I am a “the Bible says it, I believe it and that settles it” kind of guy.
I try not to portion out what’s easy to believe and turn my eyes away from the really hard stuff, the unpopular stuff; the stuff that’s easy to dismiss as either too antiquated or implausible.
Mick Holt 