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May 27, 2020

Opinions as a Christian - loving those with differing opinions, being authentic, and being “controversial”

“People that don’t have opinions on anything other then what the rest of the world tells them to have don’t stand for anything - and that is scary.” -Paul Since the introduction of social media, society as a whole has…

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May 22, 2020

Rules For Thee But Not For Me

Corona virus has revealed something very scary and very old in the world - that is that those who see themselves as the elite in the world - be they news anchors, politicians, scientists, etc - generate rules for all of us to live by but when they…

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May 11, 2020

Mental Health Awareness Month In The Time Of Covid-19

May is mental health awareness month, and in 2020 during the time of Corona and forced lockdowns - this is probably one of the most important conversations to have.  Now I am not here to argue for or against the lockdowns - if the governors…

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May 11, 2020

Mental Health Awareness Month 2020

Paul provides an update and his thoughts on what it is like to observe and practice the principles behind mental health awareness month in 2020 during the time of Covid.

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April 15, 2020

Let's be hopeful in the time of Covid-19

Covid-19 is a rapidly and continually changing topic.  Anything talked about today will be out of date come tomorrow morning - but this is an important topic even with the ever moving target. This week's podcast was recorded on 4/4/2020 - an…

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April 1, 2020

The Great Triggering

“Hard times create strong men.Strong men create good times.Good times create weak men.And, weak men create hard times.” — G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain We have had it very well here in the United States recently.  …

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March 25, 2020

Transgender Athletes

I will admit I debated this one for a long time before I brought this to the other guys.   When I originally had the idea for Use Your Words, this topic was one that was on my list to eventually get to but to tread with caution at the same t…

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March 23, 2020

Imagine If Celebrities Were Relevant

“Imagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the people sharing all the world” — Imagine The irony of those lyrics being sung by rich celebrities this week was not lost on…

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March 18, 2020

How do you mourn an imperfect person?

On January 26th, 2020 it was revealed that Kobe Bryant and his daughter were on a helicopter which crashed, killing all aboard.  Being one of the most well known basketball players, Kobe was mourned worldwide after his death - so much so that…

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March 11, 2020

What do you give up for Lent?

In the Christian calendar, one of the most interesting times of the year is Lent.  It is one of two times of the year that, like advent, is less about the actual time and more about the time that is being looked forward to.  One of the t…

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