tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7277092841703902062024-03-13T06:14:40.987-04:00Mini MeditationsPastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-41715104118630942802018-05-19T12:27:00.001-04:002018-05-19T12:27:04.697-04:00When the Rod is Right and Words are Wrong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While I remember times when physical punishments went too far, I also remember this about them: They were over quickly and cleared the air, while other forms of discipline dragged on and created a cloud of negativity that overshadowed family activities for depressingly long lengths of time.<br />
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"I would rather (said he) have the rod to be the general terrour to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.” ― <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/55078.James_Boswell" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">James Boswell</a>, <span id="quote_book_link_111957"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/990842" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">The Life of Samuel Johnson</a></span></blockquote>
Pastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-25775847579724045432017-08-26T12:06:00.003-04:002017-08-26T12:10:25.050-04:00When Shutting Up is a Good Idea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have heard people angrily say, "When I see God, I'm going to ask Him why ...(insert grievance here)"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nope. Not going to happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When we see God, we are going to shut up. No one will demand that God answer their questions. What God wants us to hear, we will hear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">the LORD </span><i style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">is</i><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him." Hab 2:20</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"...they work for 30 days without payment. On the 31st day they are allowed to take with them as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders.Whether the ore contains any gold or not is a matter of luck."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This might be called payment, but it sounds like slavery to me. "Paying" this way is like allowing someone to eat table scraps after they have worked all day serving others.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Debt and greed bring men into all kinds of desperate circumstances. Once in, it is hard to escape. The best way out is to never get in. But once in, do all that possible to get out, and for the impossible, cry out to God for help.</span></div>
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Pastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-37687733053293699222017-07-21T16:11:00.001-04:002017-07-21T16:14:46.230-04:00A Verse for Wet Blankets <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Pastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-61803134196220342312017-07-11T18:35:00.001-04:002017-07-11T18:41:53.351-04:00Self-Service Cemeteries...<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vjLP4lNc-zU/WWVOAL_hEjI/AAAAAAAANps/eeH_fcP-ev8iDRymiNBV1u4_cezJqUvTQCLcBGAs/s1600/Self-cemetary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="453" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vjLP4lNc-zU/WWVOAL_hEjI/AAAAAAAANps/eeH_fcP-ev8iDRymiNBV1u4_cezJqUvTQCLcBGAs/s200/Self-cemetary.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I am my heart's undertaker. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">only to have to do it all again tomorrow." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Emilie Autumn</span><br />
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The problem with that kind of burial is that while some bury to forget, others bury things like one buries treasures or bones, things to be dug up again, lusted over, gnawed on, buried again, things that, with each cycle, become more corrupted, more corrupting or less satisfying.<br />
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One of the benefits of genuine Christianity is that such things can be discarded, buried, and remembered no more, being replaced by things that are better for the current state of our mental health and future happiness.<br />
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"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Romans 6:4<br />
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Also: When you realize you just sang the last words of the chorus, but you don't remember what verse you just sang, so you wait to see what everybody else is going to do,<br />
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A hedge of thorns in a person's way makes for hard, slow, and painful progress. It seems odd that sloth should create such a thing since slothful people are looking for just the opposite kind of experience in life. </div>
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The road the righteous travel might seem to be the long way around, but it avoids the hedges. </div>
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For an easier and less painful journey through life, navigate the way of righteousness with a bit of diligence and patience. It turns out that it is the most pleasant path after all.</div>
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Pastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-64705359694478657992017-02-03T20:24:00.001-04:002017-02-03T20:26:44.674-04:00Where to Look for that Next Promotion...<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jps4KcLDSjM/WJUex3CAULI/AAAAAAAALtE/_J-It9H3PGE8IyaEJUkUIHrWuRRFXbruwCLcB/s1600/promotion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jps4KcLDSjM/WJUex3CAULI/AAAAAAAALtE/_J-It9H3PGE8IyaEJUkUIHrWuRRFXbruwCLcB/s320/promotion.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
Don't walk around, looking around, for that next promotion.<br />
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It is from God that true advancement comes, at least the kind that really matters.<br />
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"<b>For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another</b>." Psalm 75:6-7</blockquote>
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<br />Pastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-50322507826506045332016-11-23T11:37:00.002-04:002016-11-23T11:41:03.043-04:00Clever, Smart or Wise?<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dLHOQ1zFYBU/WDW3nRkl6gI/AAAAAAAALfE/HaOXq2IPXos3Ze7Fja8TC0L3CBI8rHPLQCLcB/s1600/Clever%2Band%2Bduumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dLHOQ1zFYBU/WDW3nRkl6gI/AAAAAAAALfE/HaOXq2IPXos3Ze7Fja8TC0L3CBI8rHPLQCLcB/s400/Clever%2Band%2Bduumb.jpg" width="386" /></a>Clever is escaping from the tire boot.<br />
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Smart is paying the fine on time.<br />
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Wise is not getting the tickets in the first place.<br />
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<br />Pastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-63362153871315544912016-11-11T10:57:00.001-04:002016-11-11T11:07:42.046-04:00After Election Attitudes1. The Conan Model<br />
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2. The "Now We Can Be Friends" Model<br />
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<br />Pastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-32960910909599667332016-09-03T12:19:00.003-04:002016-09-03T12:36:40.901-04:00Trophies for All, Hurt All<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gtlg0DhAzJ0/V8r3z7UFAvI/AAAAAAAAKxQ/t0xtWF4p6tAueN3VNizslf0xcGRqeg7cQCLcB/s1600/Trophies%2Bfor%2Ball%2Bhurt%2Ball.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gtlg0DhAzJ0/V8r3z7UFAvI/AAAAAAAAKxQ/t0xtWF4p6tAueN3VNizslf0xcGRqeg7cQCLcB/s320/Trophies%2Bfor%2Ball%2Bhurt%2Ball.jpg" width="320" /></a>I know that school officials want all kids to feel good. But, they should know that their efforts to encourage everyone, regardless of merit, discourage students who have done the hard work to succeed.<br />
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Knowing how to deal with the bad feelings brought on by failure is actually an important life skill. Kids who fail and feel bad may try harder to succeed. They may also give up and do something else.<br />
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Both are OK.<br />
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Succeeding in one endeavor is great, but not every path is for everybody. Failure, as well as success, helps students choose a better life direction. If kids never get any bad news, how will they make any course corrections?Pastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-75831894084472473472016-09-02T07:05:00.001-04:002016-09-02T07:05:17.281-04:00Choose a Path, Choose a Destiny<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ANyggRf38eU/V8lctZiQfZI/AAAAAAAAKw8/UEAF1HWviP4PkvcIC6gKZl5DdlM8kdncQCLcB/s1600/consequenses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ANyggRf38eU/V8lctZiQfZI/AAAAAAAAKw8/UEAF1HWviP4PkvcIC6gKZl5DdlM8kdncQCLcB/s400/consequenses.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You may choose a path to travel on, but you can't change the destination that is at the end of that path. </span><br />
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It might also help you get a job. But from what I hear, people who have jobs are considered as better prospects and more attractive than those who never bother to get them.<br />
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Learning a new language may not get you to where you want to be, but it can take you to a place where there are a lot more possibilities. More possibilities bring hope, and hope brings a positive attitude. People that are hopeful, positive and that have a lot of possibilites are fun to be around.<br />
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I find those traits attractive in a person. It is likely people will find these traits attractive in you.<br />
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Well might a shadow say the sun is imaginary. The sun will forever remain unseen as long as the shadow remains a shadow, even though its very existence is only possible because the sun exists.<br />
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I value my education. I can think profound thoughts while I sweep a street.<br />
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A people's personal value may exceed the parameters of their job description.<br />
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Leather-booted, cat-owning vegetarians and rock throwing peace-marchers aren't my favorite kind of people. Neither are hyphenated Christians.<br />
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Beware of hyphenated Christianity. If you have to hyphenate it, you're doing it wrong.<br />
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Pastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-20653836630705627342016-07-13T12:36:00.000-04:002016-07-13T12:39:04.961-04:00Misstmatcing Mars Message<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You may be clean and pure on the inside, but if you look like this on the outside, I bet you will have a lot less customers for whatever it is you're selling.<br />
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If the message you want to share with the world is important, it is also important to remove any obstacles that would hinder its reception.<br />
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"You can't judge a book by its cover" may be true. But I bet a worthy book, with a cover worthy of it's contents, will get read by a lot more people than a good book with a cover that is unworthy of the good message inside.Pastor Steve Prelgoviskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598263541675268314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727709284170390206.post-41681072720513300222016-07-09T10:26:00.003-04:002016-07-09T10:39:31.345-04:00A useful term: "Premature Optimization"<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qb7TC_WB7ZM/V4EJb2H1c4I/AAAAAAAABxI/umgAkhz5wHkd75TCwd-zeNYkXncNhw0UgCLcB/s1600/Prematurely%2Boptimization.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qb7TC_WB7ZM/V4EJb2H1c4I/AAAAAAAABxI/umgAkhz5wHkd75TCwd-zeNYkXncNhw0UgCLcB/s320/Prematurely%2Boptimization.png" width="216" /></a>My vocabulary term for today is "Premature Optimization."
Basically, when you do this you are putting things in order, micro-managing items or perfecting them, before you understand how, or even if, they will ever be used in the future.<br />
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Some premature optimization is inevitable. Plans change and render some previous planning useless. A language might be learned extremely well for a trip that never occurred. If we waited till we needed such a skill, it would be too late to acquire it then.<br />
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But there are plenty of opportunities to avoid wasting time prematurely perfecting stuff that may never be used. <br />
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Better results are often had when a person postpones the final perfection of a project to a time when they can better understand how and by whom it will be used.
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