I like Mat Kearney’s music. He’s the first artist that I heard that combined acoustic music with rap. I first heard of Mat Kearney from my friend Mark Krebs when we were on a trip to Latvia in 2006, it was the soundtrack of our trip. When I hear that album it totally reminds me of […]
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Author Archives: Jim Baker “A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.” Proverbs 31:10 Yesterday Jess celebrated her 30th Birthday! I get out of the way and let Jess plan her whole birthday, because she does a far better job than I would. So yesterday started out with an early morning surf […] Something I realized about myself last year was that I feel best when I’m producing. I think I’ve written that more than a few times on here. Maybe this blog is just a way for me to externally process, which is what I think that when I look at the blog stats, which discourage me. […] Usually we talk about addiction affecting our communities.. but what if it was the other way around? What if our communities were set up in an intentional way to free people from addiction? In my latest sermon I referenced this article entitled The Likely Cause Of Addiction Has Been Discovered And It’s Not What You […] My church Streams of Life has been gracious enough to let me preach about every 6 weeks. I’m honored by the opportunity. Here was my Valentines day sermon. A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post entitled “Here’s a Sure Way To Fail At Your Goals.” It’s funny how you can learn something but have to keep relearning that same lesson. I ran into it just this past week. Basically, the blog post I’m referencing above talks about removing the unnecessary […] Completely might be a better word than totally in reference to my failure at the goals I set out for February. How we deal with failure though and disappointment is huge I’ve realized, that will be a whole other blog post someday maybe. I have however been READING a lot more in February. And I’ve […] I was hanging out with my friend RK last night and he was telling me about how he and his wife and kids have started a GOAL board on their fridge. Every morning at breakfast they look at the goal board and when a goal is accomplished they make a big deal about crossing them […]  [A sample “chart” from one of Jess’ students.] Jess is on staff with the Chronological School of Biblical Studies. This is a 9 month school where students study all 66 books of the Bible. Please click here to read a blog post from one of her students to see some of the work that they […] Jess brought up the really solid point that February is the shortest month, 28 days. She suggested that we really push through the month of February and set and complete some of our goals in that month. Does anyone want to join us in a big push towards goal accomplishing this February? |
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