The “Why” Behind Your Activity

TGIF! That phrase is on the minds of millions of people as they wind down their work weeks, planning for Friday night. What are your plans for this weekend? Maybe you have a Friday routine with coworkers, friends or family. Or maybe you’ve planned something different, a distraction from your regular routine. When was the last time you sat down and thought about why you made those particular plans?

Whether we are willing to admit it or not, there is always a “why” behind our choice of activity. So when our responsibilities are fulfilled for the week, and time is in our control, why do we choose the activities that we do?

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E-Book Review: “Hanging Up the Leisure Suit”

What did your church do for Easter this year? Was it the same sort of program, if not the same program that they did last year? Does your midweek adult Bible study service look the same as it did fifteen, twenty, or thirty years ago?

Don’t get me wrong, if something that your church does works and has great results year after year, it may only need the occasional tweak to keep it effective. But many of us are repeat offenders. We repeat, repeat, repeat, and we keep on doing repeating, with no end in sight, just like this run-on sentence, and with no results, because we are just plain stuck.

If you think you might be stuck or if you’re are confident that you are, there is hope for you. Tony Morgan just released the second installment in The Leisure Suit Series of free e-books: “Hanging Up the Leisure Suit.”

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Why I Waited a Year for My First Vacation

This past Sunday I did something for the first time in over a year. I missed a Sunday at church. I’m not really sure when I last took Sunday off, even before we took our current pastoral position last August. But I do know that it was an awkward day for me.

You might think me a little unbalanced for not having a Sunday off in over a year. One member joked that the church must pay me so much that I feel too guilty to miss a week. That was not the reason, of course, but I was very intentional about it. While I did take a few days during the week a couple of times over that year, it was very important to me to be in the building every week.

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