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Life is a journey. It’s a journey that began the moment you were conceived and it will continue throughout your existence. There are certain things your soul longs for on this journey and, whether you realize it or not, your life is shaped by your search for them – worth, significance, acceptance, love, peace, are all needs felt by all. I’m just a little over a week a way from releasing my second book entitled Empty Promises: ...

Click here to view the embedded video.   Welcome to a regular one minute teaching by Author, Coach, Speaker and Trainer  Kary Oberbrunner.  You may subscribe to these messages via the Youtube channel or by visiting KaryOberbrunner.com where you will receive a free gift. If these videos give your day a SPARK, then please share them on your Facebook, twitter, or other social media. Ignite a friend. (Click SHARE below) Kary’s books ...

My Google Reader is filled with “starred” posts again. I “star” a post when I want to go back to it later, to read it again, to think about what the author is saying, to comment, or perhaps all of the above. I’ve noticed that in many of these “starred” posts – the posts that caught my attention – the author is sharing from the depths of his or her heart, sharin...

It is one of the most helpless feelings you have as a parent. You are holding your young child and they are gasping for their next breath. This was the reality for us as a family this week as our youngest son, Bo, came down with RSV, a respiratory virus. We watched him quickly regress to the point that he was laboring for every breath. My wife had taken him to the doctor prior to this point and they prescribed a nebulizer as well as an antibiot...

For the last few years, I’ve included the option to receive email updates whenever I publish a new article on “The Assembling of the Church.” Several people have signed up for that option over that time. However, a few weeks ago, the process that sent out the emails broke. So, no email updates have gone out in that time. I have tested and installed a new email subscription application. All of the...

Have you ever been reading through the Gospels and realized that (obviously) Jesus forgot the conditional statements… again? Or, if he didn’t forget to say the conditional statements, then someone forgot to write them down. You know what I mean, right? Like when he said, “Take up your cross daily and follow me.” He forgot the conditional statement about having a bad day, or facing a person ...

I just started a new book yesterday called Necessary Endings by Dr. Henry Cloud. So far, I love this book. If you know me, you know I’m a people pleaser at heart. Making decisions and having conversations with others that I know hurt them are tough for me. I’ve learned they’re necessary, but I still have a great deal of anxiety that accompanies such things. And I bet you do to. It’s hard to… Have a tough conversatio...

Keith at “subversive1” has written on a topic that (I think) is often misunderstood. His post is called “58 Fold Ministry?” and it tackles the subject of the (so-called) five-fold ministry in Ephesians 4:11. He examines the list of spiritual gifts (and spiritually gifted people) in Ephesians 4:11, but he also compares that list to the ones in Romans 12:4-8 and 1 Corinthians 12:28. (Of cours...

I recently read an article by John Ortberg entitled, “Higher Stakes Friendships.” He talked about these so called “five rules of friendship” this group of guys used as guidelines for their conversations. The “five rules” were… 1. We can ask anything, no holds barred. 2. If you answer, you must tell the truth, as much as you know it. 3. If you don’t answer, you must say why you won’t or can&...

I feel sorry for “anonymous.” Seriously, I do. She (or he) doesn’t know what it means to live among God’s family when they are truly living as brothers and sisters in Christ. What am I talking about? Well, thank you for asking. Last Sunday, someone requested that we sing the hymn “Just A Closer Walk With Thee.” According to our song book, the song was written by someone named &#...