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Why Do Bad Things Happen (pt. 2)?

posted by chadhovind

I. Five reasons the recipe is ruined        As we look at the world, here are the five mutually exclusive explanations for why life doesn’t act the way we think it should.  Five different reasons why suffering occurs. Suffering? Suffering is [...]

Weakness Strengthens Influence

posted by chadhovind

There are certain words that seem weak. Words like Compassion, Authenticity, or Gentleness.  These do not seem like “Leadership words!”   They invoke painful stereotypes of being forced to “talk about our feelings” in a counseling office, or be treated like [...]

GPS (God’s Parenting System): U-Turn…Appealing and Surrendering Well (pt. 1)

posted by chadhovind

There are two skills that every child MUST develop and be trained in. They must learn how to APPEAL and SURRENDER well.  Last week, we talked about how to “yield” to authority, and how to teach our kids to respect [...]

GPS (God’s Parenting System)-Danger: Teaching Consequences and Rewards, part 1

posted by chadhovind

DANGER: TEACHING CONSEQUENCES AND REWARDS Parenting is hard. It is difficult. Trying to wrestle with the challenge of balancing grace and truth with your individual children’s personalities and temperaments is a real challenge.  All the while, children are brilliant at [...]

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God and Money: Why Work Can Be Filled With Purpose
The Gift of Work At the heart of Godonomics is the value and God-given joy of work. Work and labor are gifts from God. He has given us talents to develop and opportunities to utilize them. God expects us to see work as a gift from Him. God wants His people working to provide for themselves and ot

posted 5:33:28am May. 18, 2012 | read full post »

Unemployment Hurts...
Why is unemployment so high? Why hasn't it gotten better? Why haven't the national credit card of TARP, Stimulus funds, bail-outs, and buy-outs made the situation any better?   It's not Obama's fault nor Bush's fault.  Or another way to say it might be: It's both Obama's fault and Bush's fault.  

posted 5:21:56am May. 17, 2012 | read full post »

Glenn Beck, Capitalism, and the Bible
I had an opportunity to speak with Glenn Beck recently about the Biblical case for free market capitalism.  Here is a clip. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DFO7mCdkx0[/youtube] I was reading the book of Ruth again this week and struck by God's powerful record of Godly business men.

posted 6:48:57am May. 16, 2012 | read full post »

Breakfast With Mike Huckabee
I've pastored churches that had "red-state" leanings as well as "blue-state" leanings.  I've had the opportunity to meet folks like Mike Huckabee and Jimmy Carter.    I had breakfast with Mike Huckabee this year after the two of us were both speaking at a pastor's conference.   I was speaking on

posted 9:00:30am May. 15, 2012 | read full post »

How We Can Help Our Economy
George Washington died the same way America's economy is dying: he was bled to death by his doctors. As George's symptoms got worse, his doctors siphoned out another pint of blood--believing his bad blood was the problem. With every pint pumped from his veins, he surprisingly --at least to them- got

posted 7:51:42am May. 03, 2012 | read full post »


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