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matthewmcdill.com · 1M ago

Pursuing a Life of Purpose

Last Sunday I completed a teaching series on “Pursuing a Life of Purpose.” Although all the principles presented are biblical, many of the ideas were inspired from Stephen Covey’s book, First Things First. You can listen to or download these messages in the audio player in the right sidebar. I have
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matthewmcdill.com · 2M ago

Moses and Shared Leadership

I am thankful to God this week for two new elders at our church, Highland Christian Fellowship. R.D. Hodges and I have been elders for about four years now. Last Sunday we added Walt Stringer and James Wilkes. It was a long and beautiful process to see our fellowship seek God’s leadership in this (I
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matthewmcdill.com · 4M ago

World Stats: Smaller Families in Urban Areas

Interesting facts from Operation World: The Definitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation (using data from the United Nations). “The world’s population nearly doubled between 1970 and 2010. Global population growth rates peaked around 1970 and have steadily declined since then – the main contribution to t
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matthewmcdill.com · 5M ago

Wisdom is Moral

“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man does not know its worth. . . . It cannot be bought for gold. . . . God understands the way to it, And he knows its place. . . . He saw it and declared it; He established it, and [...]
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matthewmcdill.com · 5M ago

Business and Flow of Information: “Adapt or Die”

The crucial legal foundation of the free market is the right of private property: ownership. This implies that at the heart of free market liberty is the right of making exchanges: the right of disownership. This quote is from an interesting article by Gary North, “Adapt or Die (in the Unemployment
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matthewmcdill.com · 5M ago

Meeting a WWII Veteran

My daughter Bethany played in a piano recital at a nursing home last Friday afternoon. After the presentation I met an amazing man. His name was Jim Cole. Mr. Cole had blue ball cap on with big yellow letters: “I am a WWII Veteran.” The first thing he said to me was, “We should have [...]
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matthewmcdill.com · 5M ago

Isaac Comes Home

Christmas Baby. I was born on Dec 21 and they brought me home in a stocking. Here is Isaac in the very same stocking! (left ) Samantha was excited!  ”Baby, baby, baby . . .”  (right) photo opportunity
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matthewmcdill.com · 5M ago

Isaac is Born!

After waiting 9 days past the due date, Isaac David is finally born! We arrived at the hospital around 3am. At 3:15 our midwife checked Dana and told us she was already 10 cm. dilated! The rest was smooth and quick and Isaac was born at 3:58am. He is 8 lb 4 oz, 21′ long. [...]
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matthewmcdill.com · 5M ago

N. T. Wright on Fox News

N. T. Wright appears on Fox News discussing his new book, Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters. What is impressive to me about Dr. Wright’s discussion is that he presents an intelligent and rational view of Christ without compromising the spiritual truth of his i
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matthewmcdill.com · 5M ago

Snow!

The Christmas tree is up. Snow is falling. The chickens like it. Still waiting on Isaac (5 days overdue) . . .
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