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Watch out for the neighbors

Watch out for the neighbors

The old saying in real estate is: “location, location, location.” The value of your property will definitely be impacted by the property’s around it. Real Estate agents pull ‘comps’ to see what the house you’re selling, or buying, should be worth. We are in the process of looking for a new home. Looking at the […]

When the Innocent Pay

I have a distinct memory when I was in elementary school and there were some kids around me misbehaving. Now, don’t get me wrong, I usually held my own when it came to misbehaving in school, but this time, I was actually doing what I was supposed to be doing. The teacher’s solution to the […]

Evaluate Your Group Effectiveness

Every now and then a leader needs to take inventory about how their group is going. For all-church group life evaluation, forms and online assessment tools are great. However, there is a need for each group leader to take a reading of where their own group is at. It’s not meant for deep evaluation. One […]

Value Added Living

I was recently thinking about the value that group life has added to my life. I grew up in church, a pastors home even. I can remember when I was a child being sick on Sundays and having to go and spend Sunday morning in my father’s office instead of in my bed. Going to […]

One for All!

My wife and I took our son to go see Madagascar 2 a while back. I remember that there were enough one-liners in the movie to provide enough chuckles from me that I didn’t fall asleep. There were two lines that caused me to whip out my phone and make a note to myself right […]