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Spirituality and the Sense of Smell

Posted on October 25, 2016October 28, 2016 by Michael Rose
Last Sunday afternoon, my family and I took a walk in a park along the Old Man River in Southern Alberta. The gusty west winds had done their job relieving the old Poplar trees of their leaves. The gusty wind was shifting, and swirling the fallen leaves on the ground. With each step, the crunch of...
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    December 29, 2018

    When Dirt isn’t Dirty

    I was at a gathering a couple of weeks ago, and one of the folks facilitating chose dirt as a metaphor.  He rode that metaphor pretty hard as he reminded us repeatedly that we are dirty by nature and because dirty isn’t good we needed Jesus to make us clean.  Sometimes, when we ride a...
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    God Qualifies the Called: Leadership

    Many pastors I speak with confess that, in so many ways, they feel ill-equipped to lead a church community.  Despite a great education, they don't feel as ready as they think they should, and the challenges of church life can bring the right kind of pressures that seem to expose these weaknesses. Every person is...
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  • Is it Godly Leadership or Control?
    November 29, 2011

    Is it Godly Leadership or Control?

    In an organization, leaders generally consider themselves in the right. It is part of the paradigm they create for themselves: if you have succeeded in making your way to the top of an organization, then, by definition, the values for which you stand, must be right, because they have been authenticated and validated by peers...
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