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One Shepherd’s Style

Posted on December 31, 2013 by ehurst

You can’t pretend you are someone else for very long. Keeping secrets is dangerous, but keeping them from yourself is the most dangerous of all. I don’t want to know yours, but if my mission exposes me to secrets, I … Continue reading →

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Ancient Truth: Ephesians Done

Posted on December 13, 2012 by ehurst

Finished the edits for Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. You can find the results here (site gone).

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TMOC 11. Give Them Room

Posted on October 15, 2012 by ehurst

Efficiency and achievement are human values, not spiritual values. How would our children learn if we didn’t let them fail? How would they gain skills and confidence if don’t let them practice, taking much longer than we would on the … Continue reading →

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TMOC 7: All in the Family

Posted on October 13, 2012 by ehurst

We know Jesus possessed a prophetic insight. Some of His decisions arise directly from that, but this does not remove the purely human motives which surely fed into some of those choices. Too often Western Christians paint the scenes of … Continue reading →

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YANR: Yet Another New Religion

Posted on October 1, 2012 by ehurst

It is, but then it isn’t. I don’t take myself seriously enough to suggest this is the original thing, the most ancient, etc. There’s no way to prove that, anyway. I do claim it inherits a lot from ancient times, … Continue reading →

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Leadership versus Management

Posted on May 25, 2012 by ehurst

Leadership is doing what’s right regardless who follows. Management is trying to control the outcomes, regardless how it’s done. It would be easy to spill out a long post here by expanding and expounding on this, but I feel confident … Continue reading →

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Biblical Business Theory

Posted on May 4, 2012 by ehurst

Based on my frequent rants about God’s Laws, we can outline what a genuine lawful business would look like in the USA today. Fundamentally, the objective is not profit, at least not in the sense commonly used in business right … Continue reading →

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The Mission

Posted on March 22, 2012 by ehurst

What do you love doing most? Somewhere within the landscape of your passion and drive to do any particular thing can be found the secret of your mission. Almost everyone, with even the poorest public education of today, can do … Continue reading →

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Hideous Frame of Reference

Posted on March 19, 2012 by ehurst

Moving beyond specific instances, there is a broad and sinister trend in churches across the US. By no means am I in favor of democratic church polity. This was never the New Testament model, and what we today consider the … Continue reading →

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We All Need a Human Touch

Posted on January 15, 2012 by ehurst

“Mama! She’s looking at me!” Childish whining of this sort deserves punishment. No one should be permitted to demand the rest of the world bend to their outrageous requirements and whims. I’ll bet you’ve seen teenage girls in schools dress … Continue reading →

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