Comments on: 108972943872552384 http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384 Sniffing out the work of God in the world... Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:15:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John Brooks http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-41108 John Brooks Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:59:52 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-41108 Google is the best search engine Google is the best search engine

]]> By: Clarissa http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-821 Clarissa Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:27:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-821 Oh, Grant, do tell ... Oh, Grant, do tell …

]]> By: spot http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-820 spot Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:48:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-820 Well Mike, that may work for you. You being a preacher, people are much kinder and more forgiving to you than they are to us in the real world. So why don't preach only what you know about and quit ticking the rest of us off! Well Mike, that may work for you. You being a preacher, people are much kinder and more forgiving to you than they are to us in the real world. So why don’t preach only what you know about and quit ticking the rest of us off!

]]> By: Anonymous http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-819 Anonymous Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:53:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-819 Chris, AMEN! Great spirit. Great point and very honoring to Jesus. Christ should be the source of all my 'choosing'. If all I have is me and my will power...and my strength..I am done for. I need help, wisdom and strength in those times because I am weak and broken. Therefore, I need Jesus every moment. I guess you could say I get saved everyday cause I need Him every moment. Especially during the temptation to choose to sin. My power of choice is meaingless then if Jesus does not help me. Thanks for your comment, Chris. I get the help and Jesus gets the honor in my leaning on Him in every choice. Chris,

AMEN! Great spirit.

Great point and very honoring to Jesus. Christ should be the source of all my ‘choosing’. If all I have is me and my will power…and my strength..I am done for. I need help, wisdom and strength in those times because I am weak and broken. Therefore, I need Jesus every moment. I guess you could say I get saved everyday cause I need Him every moment. Especially during the temptation to choose to sin. My power of choice is meaingless then if Jesus does not help me.

Thanks for your comment, Chris. I get the help and Jesus gets the honor in my leaning on Him in every choice.

]]> By: Grant http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-818 Grant Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:48:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-818 That last comment was hitting below my big, white, excessively-wide 1970s belt. Don't make me reveal to everyone in blogdom your backstage antics the year you were a Sing Song host. That last comment was hitting below my big, white, excessively-wide 1970s belt. Don’t make me reveal to everyone in blogdom your backstage antics the year you were a Sing Song host.

]]> By: Brandon Scott http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-817 Brandon Scott Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:23:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-817 Grant-- Just because Pat is your uncle doesn't give you the right to call Mike a noodle. It also doesn't give you the right to live in a tanning bed and wear white patten leather shoes, by the way. So cut that out. Grant–
Just because Pat is your uncle doesn’t give you the right to call Mike a noodle. It also doesn’t give you the right to live in a tanning bed and wear white patten leather shoes, by the way. So cut that out.

]]> By: Matt http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-816 Matt Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:16:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-816 My profession brings me into daily contact with people whose mood of choice is rage, so I REALLY wish more people understood this simple truth. (On second thought - maybe not - it might put me out of a job! [G]) I used to think that clients who were raging about their problems were expecting me to rage along with them - and, the truth is, some of them do. But, in the end, I hope to convince them that a cool head and some well-reasoned perspective on their situation is a lot more valuable than an all-out-war mentality, which usually ends up creating a huge (and costly) mess. I don't always remember this myself, but I think I am more effective when I do. My profession brings me into daily contact with people whose mood of choice is rage, so I REALLY wish more people understood this simple truth. (On second thought - maybe not - it might put me out of a job! [G])

I used to think that clients who were raging about their problems were expecting me to rage along with them - and, the truth is, some of them do. But, in the end, I hope to convince them that a cool head and some well-reasoned perspective on their situation is a lot more valuable than an all-out-war mentality, which usually ends up creating a huge (and costly) mess.

I don’t always remember this myself, but I think I am more effective when I do.

]]> By: Joel Quile http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-815 Joel Quile Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:15:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-815 Grant, Brandon can't MAKE you anything...You decided to be furious. You need to take control and responsibility for your emotions. For a good read on this very subject may I suggest Mike's blog? It can be found at www.mikecope.blogspot.com. Nice touch with "Zoeman" though... Grant, Brandon can’t MAKE you anything…You decided to be furious. You need to take control and responsibility for your emotions. For a good read on this very subject may I suggest Mike’s blog? It can be found at http://www.mikecope.blogspot.com.

Nice touch with “Zoeman” though…

]]> By: Grant http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-814 Grant Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:12:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-814 Brandon, this character assassination is an OUTRAGE! Calling Mike, in essence, a noodle is out of line and makes me FURIOUS! Is that somehow slang for effeminate? Are you sure you're not behind those "pretty men" posts last week? I'm on to you, Zoe Man, and I am LIVID! Brandon, this character assassination is an OUTRAGE! Calling Mike, in essence, a noodle is out of line and makes me FURIOUS! Is that somehow slang for effeminate? Are you sure you’re not behind those “pretty men” posts last week? I’m on to you, Zoe Man, and I am LIVID!

]]> By: Brandon Scott http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-813 Brandon Scott Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:48:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-813 Preach, pasta, preach! So right. Preach, pasta, preach! So right.

]]> By: Joel Quile http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-812 Joel Quile Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-812 "Unfavorable external stuff" happens. I can see a bumper sticker in the works. Seven Habits of Highly Uneffective People: self-pity, blaming, resentment.... I can see a book in the works. Spouse, job, church...and BLOG? Ever notice that some people who comment on your blog wish that they had a different blog to comment on? I can see a blog entry in the works. Mike, I have decided to be happy after reading your blog. Quick question: What if your "for a bit" turns into like 17 hours? Won't that just MAKE you mad? “Unfavorable external stuff” happens. I can see a bumper sticker in the works.

Seven Habits of Highly Uneffective People: self-pity, blaming, resentment…. I can see a book in the works.

Spouse, job, church…and BLOG? Ever notice that some people who comment on your blog wish that they had a different blog to comment on? I can see a blog entry in the works.

Mike, I have decided to be happy after reading your blog.

Quick question: What if your “for a bit” turns into like 17 hours? Won’t that just MAKE you mad?

]]> By: Anonymous http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-811 Anonymous Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:58:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-811 My uncle used to tell us...You can get glad in the same pants you got mad in! My uncle used to tell us…You can get glad in the same pants you got mad in!

]]> By: Lovell's Lookout http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-810 Lovell's Lookout Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:51:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-810 MIke- this reminds me of the story I heard Rick Atchley tell of a ticket counter employee who had just taken , with a smile, five minutes of being cussed out by an angry business man. After the man stormed off,the observer, a preacher freind of Rick's on a lay-over, told the Lady, "I can't believe how much grace you had for that man..You were polite, did not raise your voice, didn't get defensive...how do you do it, I think I would have hit him?" She replied, "Well that man is going to Los Angeles, and I just sent his luggage to Chicago!" MIke- this reminds me of the story I heard Rick Atchley tell of a ticket counter employee who had just taken , with a smile, five minutes of being cussed out by an angry business man. After the man stormed off,the observer, a preacher freind of Rick’s on a lay-over, told the Lady, “I can’t believe how much grace you had for that man..You were polite, did not raise your voice, didn’t get defensive…how do you do it, I think I would have hit him?” She replied, “Well that man is going to Los Angeles, and I just sent his luggage to Chicago!”

]]> By: David U http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-809 David U Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:29:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-809 Mike, I was there in DFW last week......so those people haven't left YET? :) You wonder how many of these people are Christians, and missing out on the opportunity to be light and salt where it would be noticed. Then you wonder how many are not Christians and could have their perspectives change from knowing Christ. Thanks for the reminder. I fly thru there again next week....maybe they will be gone by then. Mike, I was there in DFW last week……so those people haven’t left YET? :) You wonder how many of these people are Christians, and missing out on the opportunity to be light and salt where it would be noticed. Then you wonder how many are not Christians and could have their perspectives change from knowing Christ.

Thanks for the reminder. I fly thru there again next week….maybe they will be gone by then.

]]> By: chrismith http://preachermike.com/2004/07/13/108972943872552384#comment-808 chrismith Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:15:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/?p=287#comment-808 Anonymous makes a good point about trusting ourselves when we fail in the war of passions. I would say that this is one more way we need Christ. Our salvation isn't simply about the eternal, but about the here and now. Without Christ, I would be a slave to my anger, impatience, and pettiness. I CAN'T be trusted, but Christ can and it is not I that live, but Christ living in me. Anonymous makes a good point about trusting ourselves when we fail in the war of passions. I would say that this is one more way we need Christ. Our salvation isn’t simply about the eternal, but about the here and now. Without Christ, I would be a slave to my anger, impatience, and pettiness. I CAN’T be trusted, but Christ can and it is not I that live, but Christ living in me.

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