tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43305800205196563772012-01-27T14:35:52.805-05:00Musings on life and spirituality.Kyle Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12744393705291497949noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4330580020519656377.post-2408114854403069662011-07-07T14:51:00.000-04:002011-07-07T14:51:54.915-04:00

God doesn't love you just the way you are. He just loves you. And no, he doesn't want to leave you that way. God just loving you the way you are (as a raw human) is like saying you're totally valuable, super great and totally righteous. If that were the case, well, He'd owe you His affection and we would have a works-based gospel, but the reality is just the opposite. He doesn't love you for what

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Image courtesy of the Humboldt Arts Council in the Morris Graves Museum of Art. In the world of "wild or domesticated water birds of the family Anatidae" (thank you, American Heritage), the goose is the girl and the gander is the guy. From here we can easily surmise the meaning of the phrase, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander": if something falls into the category of ought or

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Adelaide, Evie and Dad My wife recently had a bout of mom-guilt due to what she thought was an overreaction to our eldest daughter's behavior, which had been quite trying one day recently. Adelaide is a sweet, compassionate little girl, but on this particular day, beginning shortly after her emergence from bed, her attitude went sour. She was repeatedly disobedient, especially in the way she

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This question (what's my prayer life like) doesn't surprise me. I think it's a part of a cadre of curiosities that crop up around anybody who takes the pulpit. Whenever I listen to a speaker or preacher who has the hubris to tell other people how to live their lives or seek God, I'm always thinking, "Is this dude legit? Does he practice what he's preaching?" I'm not saying that all preachers are

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Taking a Walk...meh. Sounded kind of cheesy to me. So I changed it. Stuff Kyle Says. Also dumb, but more descriptive and less euphemistic. Maybe I'll get really popular and people will refer to my blog as SKS, like "Hey, did you see that sweet article on SKS?" That's awesome. And highly unlikely.

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Below is my reply to an article (Then All H–ck Broke Loose) that the founder of my organization Orphan Justice Mission Tim Stoner wrote recently. It's a great piece and adds to the discussion regarding Rob Bell's new book Love Wins. ************ Tim, well done. I always appreciate your sense of historical context and it's a reminder (which Rob mentions also in his piece on Good Morning America's

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So...welcome back, myself. Haven't posted since 2009. Shame, shame. Got a good reason to get the gears turning again, however. I just spoke at Miracle Camp's 2010 Encounter Retreat for college folk. It was a good time studying Colossians (4 sessions, 4 chapters, right, ya'll?). During the third session, where we got into some of Paul's more practical day-to-day living suggestions, I opened things

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I got done with my Tuesday morning Bible study with my two little brothers this morning and decided to set up camp and work for awhile. It had all the fixin's for moderate productivity: a big table, annoying pay-as-you-go AT&T wifi (e.g. no internet distraction), and the cooling half of a medium mocha.As I'm crunching away on a policy document, my iPhone gently turns down the music to inform me

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I found this sermon excerpt by F. B. Meyer profoundly impacting. I came across it in Dave Browning's book Deliberate Simplicity. He pulled it from www.sermonindex.net on August 8, 2008, from Meyer's sermon entitled "What Is It?". I have nearly nothing to add to it; it speaks for itself. My only question to you is the question I had to ask myself: have you let Christ take your last key?Sixteen

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I just had the privilege of being treated to lunch by Kurt Dillinger, President of Life International, a global ministry fighting for the unborn around the world. He invited me to contact him after finding out that I was a young Executive Director who may appreciate a little mentoring. I took him up on that offer, meeting at One Trick Pony in G.R. to chat about ministry and life.It didn't take

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I was reading Acts 17 today where Paul gets separated from his buddies and decides to take a stroll around town while he waits for them in Athens. It says "his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols." (vs. 16) He just can't help himself (in spite of flying solo without anyone to tell him if a rock is about to be thrown at the back of his head) and he

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Here are a couple of my responses to discussion posts concerning non profit compensation policies from my Strategic Human Resources Management class I'm taking at WMU right now. Would love some feedback on feelings surrounding the pay of preachers.____Post 1Sarah, I’m also involved in church ministry and a have actually just taken the lead pastor position in a church plant. This idea of

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In accordance with my theme of walking with God, I sit here tonight wondering if God is into heading down multiple paths, an act easily handled by an omnipresent diety but rough on a regular flesh and bone guy like me; I feel I'm being quartered. Picture God running down my job trail, which suddenly splits into a four-pronged fork. He does His God thing and divides while I try and hold on (or is

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I had a thought while attending one of the workshops at the Exponential 09 National New Church Conference in Orlando, FL, back in April. It was the realization of the similarity between community development and personal development. The speaker, Efram Smith, was talking about burnout in church planting. He shared his personal experience with burnout as a pastor of a blossoming inner city church

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One of the joys of my Sales and Marketing Directorship at Miracle Camp & Retreat Center is the shared role of mentor to our group of interns. We, the full-time staff, want their year long foray into the world of Christian camping to be a growing one, both experientially and spiritually, and besides time spent rubbing shoulders in the office (and hopefully rubbing off character by example), we

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Okay, I'm trying to stay un-sappy about this, but my natural urge is to wax eloquent. No, attempt to wax eloquent. Notice even my blog title: "Taking a walk." A little cheesy, a little romantic. Maybe an abused metaphor. But, here in this first ever blog, let me explain that title and establish my reason for writing this word-chain of my life. In the Bible, in early Genesis, it is separately

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