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A Great Team
What makes a great team? When we come together as family, in a platoon or in any organization, what ingredients makes a team great? The scripture reveals to us a few ingredients of a great team, “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administrating God’s grace in its … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 peter 4: 8-10, unit, love, army, hospitality, Family, service, team, michael jordan
kings, prophets, & priests
Today, we had a Chaplain’s training conference in Kandahar, Afghanistan. In the morning, we spent the training session with 82nd Airborne Division. In the afternoon, we spent the training session with the 3-2 Stryker Brigade. Not only did I enjoy awesome fellowship with fellow Chaplains, but also I was stimulated by the good training. Saying this, we, Chaplains live in a different world than most of our counterpart faith leaders in the Christian community. Our … Continue reading
goals
Have you ever set goals for yourself and seem to fall short in achieving them? Are you the type of person that has small goals and tasted the fruit of one or two goals accomplished? Or perhaps you, like me, from time to time write down goals that seem absurd–like Habakkuk who wrote impossible goals down on a stone tablet– or where it seemingly is humanly impossible to achieve your goals. And yet, how many … Continue reading
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Tagged goal, god, david ogilvy, goal-setting, Habakkuk, master resiliency trainer course, complete soldier fitness program, church, faith, army
fortune cookie
Today, I am enjoying the day of rest mostly from Army work. I woke up early this morning to drink some java, read Scripture, watch the Sunday morning news and finished reading Christianity Today magazine before church. At lunch, I went to a local restaurant called Jade Chinese enjoying a nice meal. As always, I broke open the fortune cookie and read a generic fortune which says, “Your hard work is about to pay off. … Continue reading
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Tagged Financial Peace University, chaplain, chaplaincy, coffee, chapel, strong bonds, afghanistan, army
My Residence @820
The back story of my residence @820 is back in September 2010 I was laying in bed exhausted. The 57th Religious Support Team has been working 50-hours weekly from June to August 2010 creating a robust Command Master Religious Plan for FY2011, procuring resources for Strong Bonds retreats, preparing training curriculum for one year’s teaching of Singles’, Couples’ and Families’ Strong Bonds retreats, Chapel services, counseling Soldiers/Families, monthly Strong Bonds retreats and making relational connections with … Continue reading
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Tagged army, chaplain, texas, Religious Support Team, Command Master Religious Program, temple, prayer, apartment
A Veteran Tribute
And today is Veteran’s day and my thoughts are toward our fine military personnel of all the Armed Forces. Sitting here tonight at the Spiritual Fitness Center with several Soldiers watching the movie, “We Were Soldiers.” And here is a veteran tribute in the character Callaway in “We Were Soldiers.” As I was watching this movie, I couldn’t help but notice the personal courage and integrity displayed of Callaway, the reporter. Think about it, a … Continue reading
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Tagged obama, army, leadership, army values, citizen-soldier, character, veteran, military, veteran's day, we were soldiers movie
thanking Chris Woodard, the FPU Military Advisor
STORY BEHIND today’s mugshot: Last week, I was excited to meet Chris Woodard in Nashville at the Financial Peace University (FPU) coaching conference. We had lunch together talking about cost of purchasing FPU kits. We spent a few moments on discussing ideas of how to implement the FPU class to the 57th Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs). I am hoping that if we train the NCOs that will give them the tools to have their finances more … Continue reading
Posted in Mug Shots
Tagged afghanistan, army, Financial Peace University, chaplain, chaplaincy, Finance, Dave Ramsey
7-financial baby steps
Employees experiencing financial stress waste 240 hours a year dealing with personal money matters while on the job. Do you feel maxed out on debt? Are you wondering if you will ever climb out of the pit of debt? Are you stressed to the max worrying about your finances? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsrA6AfS8UE[/youtube] Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders as an independent feature length documentary film and book that chronicles abusive practices … Continue reading
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Tagged global, banking, government, army, imf, interest, financial, lending, money, Financial Peace University, bailout, chaplain, obama, chaplaincy, credit cards, cheney, maxed out, Finance, greed, bush
financial deficit
Early this morning, I rolled out of bed, made coffee, took a shower and got dress and had a brief God time of reading the Sacred story. Then gathered some last minute items and place them in the suitcase. And then headed to the airport to fly to Nashville for a Financial Peace University Coaching training (For more information, click here). For those joining in this conversation, I am an Army Chaplain. And one job … Continue reading
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Tagged Divorce, Financial Peace University, Nashville, chaplain, chaplaincy, Finance, proverbs, Family, Debt, Deficit, Marriage, Dave Ramsey, army
waiting @GRK airport
Sitting here waiting at GRK airport enjoying FREE Wi-Fi, and of course, a tall cup of Starbucks coffee. Here I am sitting in the mist of a crowd of diverse people and wondering what are their stories. Right now, I am looking at a young, white pregeant lady admiring her as she rubs her belly connecting to her new life growing within her. The acts of beauty of another. Other people are being considerate as … Continue reading
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Tagged faith, army, chaplain, chaplaincy, pregreancy, spirituality, airport
