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WRAP IT UP – PUT A BOW ON IT – AND GIVE THANKS FOR OUR GIFTS and BLESSINGS (By Patrick Burk) Dear Readers and Friends, I am rarely speechless and often I am told I talk too much. Many times I am labeled opinionated and I can be accused of upsetting the status quo. All [...]
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Hey guys! Tomorrow Pat is going to wrap up his series “A Different Perspective on Church.” If you haven’t read these posts… please do so! They are a bit lengthy but certainly worth the time it will take to read them. Part 1 – Going to church – my early years Part 2 – Why [...]
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MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND? (By Patrick Burk ) I am so encouraged about sharing ideas and creating dialogue about topics that have always been of issue to me. In fact, I think that discussion and discovery of ideas leads us all on a more enlightened journey. I find that by sharing, I too [...]
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“If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn’t be able to sit down for weeks.”
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While reading Mother Teresa: No Greater Love this morning I came across a great quote, “We want so much to pray properly and then we fail. We get discouraged and give up. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. God allows the failure but He does not want the discouragement. He wants [...]
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Unbelievable, flattering, embarrassing, what the heck were they looking for? These are some of the words that come to mind when I see the words/phrases that people have searched for on the internet that ultimately landed them on my blog. Here are some of the eyebrow-lifters that have pointed people to this blog. Keep in [...]
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Hey guys, From time to time I like to point out some undiscovered greatness in the blogosphere. Here are two lady leaders who are passionately and intelligently doing the work of God in this world: Darlene is a pastor in New York who used to be on my team at Northgate Church. She is now [...]
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Good grief! We were sitting at breakfast this morning when my soon to be four year old little girl asked me, “Daddy, why do people dead?” Being the parental interpreter that I am I quickly determined that she meant to say, “Why do people die?” I stuttered and stammered my way through a theological/philosophical pile [...]
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WHY DO SOME FEEL THAT THEY DON’T BELONG? (By Patrick Burk) Today is a fine day. In the Western New York area we are getting the break we need between our first major snowfall of the year and our first Nor-Eastern Storm. I enjoy the snow, although it is hard to make your way through [...]
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