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Spiritual Growth

Built for Battle

A few years ago, Deb and I took a tour of the battleship USS Alabama, retired from service in 1962 and now docked in Mobile Bay

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Spiritual Growth

Overcoming Feedback Fears

“Successful people only have two problems with negative feedback. However, they are big problems: (a) they don’t want to hear it from us and (b)

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Spiritual Growth

Praise God

I recently read “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion” by Greg “Father G” Boyle. Father Greg is the founder of Homeboy Industries,

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Spiritual Growth

Words Matter

Our daughter Sarah recently shared the following conversation she had with her son, Drew, when they were out and saw a woman walking her dog:

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Spiritual Growth

Word Power

When our son David was three years old, he memorized Psalm 119:97, which reads, “O how I love Thy law O Lord. It is my

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Ministry Stories

The Life He Led, the Wake He Left

My late grandfather Elmer Baumgartner left quite the “wake.”  The term “wake” comes from clinical psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Henry Cloud, who compares the

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Discipleship

Building a Legacy

Many choose to step back from senior leadership or veteran positions, but still want to offer insight, mentoring, and valuable coaching to those coming up

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Ministry Stories

Reality Check

A dog food company hit some hard times. Sales were low and the CEO tried everything he could think of to improve the bottom line.

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Spiritual Growth

The Bigger Story

Perhaps you’ve heard the old story about a U.S. Navy warship that was heading through the fog one night when a distant, faint light appeared

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