Stuff Steve Said

  • What If I Push All the Buttons?

    I’ve given up on the idea of limiting myself to three articles per week, but I promise to mostly keep it to five or below almost always except the times I don’t. So here are this week’s five, which will push almost every button you’ve got. You’ve heard that smartphones are ubiquitous. You ain’t seen…

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  • Peace When???

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  • Accidental Pharisees

    Once a month I try to review my notes from a book that greatly impacted me when I read it. This month, I’m reviewing Accidental Pharisees by Larry Osborne and thought I’d share some of the best quotes with you. “When we think of having overzealous faith and being a jerk for Jesus, we picture…

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  • The Surprising Cure for Loneliness

    Deep friendship builds when we share a part of our lives you might not expect. (1-4)

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  • Not the “Why” You Expected

    What if I tell you that sometimes your guesses as to why God is allowing something to happen are not at all what you’re imagining? (1-3)

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  • God and Football Season

    We get fired up for football. Every wonder what gets God fired up? (2-1)

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  • Your Weekly Mental Calisthenics

    Every week I put out a few articles to get you thinking about where the Church is, where it might be going, and what’s going on in this crazy culture of ours. I don’t agree with all of it, but I enjoy staying mentally limber and encourage you to do the same. Three Decades Ago…

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  • Leaving the Mountaintop

    Mountaintop experiences are wonderful, be they physical, emotional or spiritual. But they are necessarily temporary. For me, they happen when I go away to a conference and get all fired up, then come home to the normal world. For a lot of people, mountaintop experiences are almost a weekly thing. There is the Sunday-morning high,…

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For years, I’ve produced brief devotional videos called Jumpstarts that I published in various outlets. (You can find them here, as well as the odd podcast.) The root of those videos was daily Bible journals I’ve been doing for decades.

I recently decided to take a hiatus from the videos, and instead publish excerpts from those journals here.

As you’ll soon see, they tend to be brief, normally consisting of just one main idea. They may also be a little rough. I’m not going to do much editing. You’ll get them just the way they came out of my brain, years, days, or months ago.

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