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Author Archives: Perry Coghlan

There Is No Silver Bullet

Parents, Is There A Silver Bullet? Seth Godin, best-selling author and highly in-demand speaker, wrote recently about “The one thing that will change everything.” As baseball fans are apt to say, “he hit it outta’ the park! Godin wrote: That introduction you need. The capital that your organization is trying to raise. The breakthrough in what you’re building… Have you ...

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The Worldview of Christmas

The story is told about a Christian missionary named Boniface (originally called Winfred) who was commissioned as a missionary to the German pagans in early 700s AD. It was late in December (appx 722 AD), after having made an arduous journey in cold and difficult weather, Boniface, and his band of brothers, came upon the village where he was going ...

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The Courage of a Father

“Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:6 “Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; ...

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The Value of Teaching Life Lessons To Your Children Early and Often

Parents too often neglect and underestimate the power of forming early the inescapable habits of thought and life in their young children. By young, I mean birth to puberty. Along with neglecting the opportunities we have to self-consciously form and direct the thinking and life choices of our children is the tendency parents have to neglect becoming self-conscious about the ...

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History, Memory and Worldview

“…And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that He had done for Israel.” Judges 2:10 “Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s ...

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Holding the Future in Your Hands

“…his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.” Acts 9:25 I was 18 years old. It was my first week in basic training and the pace of change was intentional, fast, and dramatic. One of the goals of military basic training (aka, “boot camp”) is to shed ...

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Staying Motivated As a Parent

Child training is a process that takes years of effort, progress, regress, and intention to continue. The motivation of many young parents, particularly with only one child, is often high at the start. A new school year brings the same kind of refreshing reminder that we have a new opportunity to renew and repent. Another opportunity on this journey of ...

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Beginning Again: The Hope Of The Gospel

“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” ~Romans 15:13 Late summer is the time that families begin to turn their attention away from summer and vacations to consider the beginning of another new school year. There is excitement and ...

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The Resurrection: A Celebration of Certainty

Over the last fifty years of a growing moral cultural darkness, a massive sense of uncertainty, has slowly and inescapably, fallen upon our culture. As the implications of the worldview of irrationality, secularism, relativism, and materialism have taken firm hold, the inescapable consequences of embracing these ideas, and its worldview implications, have taken root and begun to bear its inescapable ...

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A Living Sacrifice

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1-2 History is filled with the stories of those we call the “heroes of the faith.” Hebrews chapter eleven gives a chronicle of many named and unnamed heroes and heroines. The stories ...

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