mickholt
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July 10, 2013
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God's Will
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Bible, Fear, God, Jesus, Worry
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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
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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 5, 2013
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Poetry
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Gifts, God, pain, Relationships, Truth
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The course of things that changed forever remains forever changed.
Can you accept the unacceptable, a testament to pain.
Truth.
Rejoice you sinner, live and breathe and let your anger fly;
Return my Savior, take my hand I long to see your face.
Turn my heart back toward you and take my life away.
I give you all the gifts I have; I only ask your love.
To move, to see, to hate, to feel it’s all the same to me;
To stay, be blind, to love, to hide to simply sit and be.
Open up your mind to me so I can see the truth;
Fill me with the light of life and teach me how to share.
Drive from me the lust of life for my own selfish gain;
Revive my want to be your tool to love and serve and save.
mickholt
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June 26, 2013
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God's Will
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Billy Graham, direction, Faith, God, God's will, Jesus, Stand-up Comedy
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I did not have a good day.
And you know what? I have strung several of these together. Still several short of my all time record.
It’s true.
I am beyond frustrated with my life, my job, my direction, my service for God. I spend countless hours contemplating what I am doing. What I am supposed to be doing. What I am not doing right. What I want to do. Why God won’t open a door for me to do something other than what I am doing? How will I, do I, know when I am doing what God wants me to do?
mickholt
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June 24, 2013
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God's Will
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Christ, Devil, God, Jesus, Puzzles, Satan, trusting God
The chorus “…our God is an awesome God…” is not just good to sing, it is the truth. Too often, we take that awesomeness for granted.
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I know I do.
The way He reveals His truths is, at times, a bit overwhelming. Did I say “a bit?”
mickholt
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June 21, 2013
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Poetry
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Fine art, God, grace, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Literature, mercy, Poetry
Hello readers,
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Thank you, in advance, for stopping by. I honestly appreciate you sharing your time with me and my thoughts. Friday’s have become the day that I have been posting my version of poems. Today’s is titled “Adrift” and it is a lot more sing songy than I normally write – I blame Hair Metal. Please let me know what you think.
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
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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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June 16, 2013
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Uncategorized
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Faith, Fathers, Fathers Day, God, mercy
My Father’s Day Gift 2013
When I sat down to write about Father’s Day, it was my intention to talk about the positive things and the great things about dads in general and – for me – the great things about being a dad.
Then I started thinking about all the statistics I have read over the last few years as I have been working with men and men’s groups – the few that we’ve had – at our church. And, men, the sad truth is…
WE’RE NOT DOING THE JOB!
mickholt
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June 7, 2013
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Uncategorized
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confusion, direction, God, God's will, Jesus
CONFUSION
I am not 100% sure of what I want to say. Not right now. Not at this very moment but overall. I am not sure what I want this blog to be about or who I am directing it toward. What its purpose is or will become.
Random thoughts about life and theology? No, not really. Though that seems to be what I do the most. But I don’t wake up every day thinking “OK, I wanna drop some theology on people today.”
Comic thoughts, ideas and musings? Well, I do claim to be a comedian but that does not come out in my writing. So, no, I guess not. Though I would not be unhappy if that didn’t start happening – stay tuned.
All mistakes according to those in the blogging “know”.
mickholt
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June 5, 2013
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Uncategorized
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God, Jesus, Jon Lovitz, Lies, Satan
Satan’s Not So Greatest Lie
Last year, I wrote a post titled “Satan’s Greatest Lie,” Jeremy Myers, at ‘Till He Comes.org was nice enough to publish it for me.
I mused about how Satan tricks us with the idea that we have more time than we think and how we can always do tomorrow what we should do today. You can read it here.
I have been doing some thinking – dangerous – and a lot of reading and I no longer think that the time issue is his “greatest” lie. I started thinking about all the lies that we are told and shamefully – even Christians – fall for. He is, after all, the Father of lies.
Mick Holt 