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Pick The Winning Team

  • Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Basketball FearsFear sells. And marketing gurus use it everyday! Just think about it - How many news headlines make you feel calm and relaxed?  Now compare that number to the doom and gloom breaking news that causes me to wonder if the end days are near!

Max Lucado's latest book, Fearless, is about trusting more and fearing less.  He encourages us to have faith in God's character, and not fear the world that we live in.  Max reminds of how to keep away from fear in his tweets:

"There's a stampede of fear out there.  Let's not get ...

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The Antidote to Fear. . .

  • Friday, September 11, 2009

 I'm amazed that I didn't give my mother heart failure, especially with all the crazy things I did growing up!  My favorite story is when I jumped off the top of a tall lifeguard post at the local beach!  My mom watched me as my three year old body plummeted, head first, closer and closer to the ground.  Miraculously I landed in the sand - just three inches away from the concrete slab that most likely would have ended my life!

Thankfully, life generally isn't filled with sudden and unexpected fears, although they most certainly do exist!  There ...

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