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My first school trip I got the privilege of doing something this week that I have never done before. I got invited to be a guest speaker at a local high school and teach three 90-minute sessions. The teacher who invited me is a friend named Josh. The subject he teaches is construction, and it has three phases. Construction 1 is the first period, made up mainly of freshmen, and its purpose...
Sometimes your struggles aren’t about you I came across this story a few years back. It’s one of those that makes its rounds on the internet and social media, but every time it resurfaces, I’ve always needed to hear it again. I’d like to share it with you. The author is unknown, but the title is “The trouble tree,” and it goes something like this: The carpenter I hired to help restore my...
Happy Hebrew New Year If I timed this correctly, some of you should be reading this on New Year’s day. Now that may sound a little strange since we’re nowhere near January. Instead, we are coming into April. And according to Exodus 12:2, this is when Yahweh said we should start the year, and He called this month the month of Abib. (Exodus 13:4) The month of Abib is full of Biblical...
Trust but verify This has been a busy morning for me. That’s because I needed to be out at a property, that we have under contract to sell, to meet with both the septic and HVAC companies I use. The reason we were meeting out there was because our buyer had just completed their inspection of the property, and we had some crazy issues surface that we had to figure out before the due...
What we’re learning about 2024 We've already talked about why it's important to do an end-of-year review and how you can't get a clear picture of where you're going unless you know where are in a column titled “It’s time to get to know your numbers.” But something I don’t think I explained well was how we interpret the data we look at, why it’s important, and why you need to share it with...