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HKHaugan's Blog – January 2010 Archive (8)

Epiphany 6 Leadership in the Body of Christ

Epiphany 6 Leadership in the Body of Christ

The church is not like a corporation. Corporations are product-defined, institutionally organized with man-made principles and based on productivity for profit. In a corporation leaders are chosen in terms of the world’s profit making principles. CEO’s and board members are only as good as the profits they make. Many are self-promoting ‘go-getters’ with measurably high economic intelligence, earned degrees, desire to make money and eager to… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 28, 2010 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

Epiphany 5 Same Old? No, Same New

Epiphany 5 Same Old? No, Same New

Why do people watch ‘the news,’ read ‘news’papers, look for ‘new’ clothes, ‘new’ styles, anything new, novel, never seen or heard before. If you look at the ‘news’ industry what is its goal? Unfortunately it is based on what attracts people to watch. Tragedies, conflicts, celebrities and their escapades, fallen idols, crime and the exposure of base human nature seem to make up what is called ‘new.’ Its question---is it newsworthy, that is, worthy of… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 15, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Epiphany 4 Brand Spanking New

Epiphany 4 Brand Spanking New

There’s nothing like watching kids opening presents on Christmas morning. Presents galore and wrapping paper strewn around as new toys bring new squeals of joy and excitement. For grown-ups other kinds of new things make an appeal, like the smell of upholstery in a new car, the bouquet of flowers a husband brings his wife and the indescribable reaction at the birth of a baby. That last one greeted the world 2000 years ago, of all places, in a… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 14, 2010 at 8:07am — No Comments

Epiphany 3 Paul's Epiphany

Epiphany 3 Paul’s Epiphany

Logic, heart and action, they are the sequence that makes us human. We think, we decide and we act. This is the process for all human behavior. It is this humanity Paul saw exposed in himself as saturated with sin. But in Jesus it was God-planted perfection. What gave him that insight was the Word, particularly the 10th Commandment that said, ‘Thou shalt not covet.’

But before that we need to remember Paul was Saul. He was consumed in getting his… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 11, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Epiphany 2 Every Next Moment

Epiphany 2 Every Next Moment

Robert Redford played in a movie back in 1972 called The Candidate. In it he was a man who was able to speak his mind honestly and publicly. A local political party picked him up and made him a candidate. He was immediately booked with speaking engagements.

But, the party also engaged a consultant to groom him. As he moved on in meeting after meeting the consultant began to tell him what to do and say. The grooming was so thorough that the… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 8, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Epiphany 1 Epiphany Today

Epiphany 1 Epiphany Today

‘Oh, now I see.’ ‘I never thought about it like that before.’ ‘Everything looks different now.’ These and others like it are expressions that are epiphanies, a new way to look at something, a new idea that touches your heart and your mind. There is a new understanding and motivation proceeding from it. To me that is what makes the Bible so amazing. You can’t read it without having an epiphany.

If you carry this thought back into the early history… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 7, 2010 at 7:13am — No Comments

Christmas 8 Spiritual Machinery

Christmas 8 Spiritual Machinery

Recapturing, reshaping and reorienting the mind, heart and spirit is a lifetime project. The appearance of Jesus on the world scene is the unfolding of God’s plan of recovery. In Him we see this project unfold. Jesus was conceived and born by the Holy Spirit, lived and acted by the Spirit and, when He died, was raised by the Spirit. He set this as a pattern for us when He said that we must be born again by the Spirit and live in the context of… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 6, 2010 at 4:24pm — No Comments

Christmas 7 Reshaping the Spirit

Christmas 7 Reshaping the Spirit

Of course I’m talking about our spirits, the reshaping of the soul within us, allowing God to fill us with His Holy Spirit and restoring us to the full image of Him He intended in Creation. With the mind centered in Scripture, the heart trusting in the presence of the Lord Jesus, the Lord provides faith for the new born spiritual self to come out from under the cover of sin and fear within to be the light of Christ in the world. That light is the Holy… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 1, 2010 at 11:45am — No Comments