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Sep 9, 2018
1 min

Breakfast with Solomon - Psalm 1:2, part 3

Unfortunately, this culture has all kinds of prepackaged meditations based on other value structures that dominate the mind: television, mus

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Dr. Stieglitz

Aug 9, 2018
1 min

Breakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 9:20

Psalm 1:2 - Part 1 "But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in His Law he meditates day and night" Transformation requires new thoughts. Transformation requires a new mental construct to live and to strive toward. It is impossible to be transformed if you do not meditate on biblical concepts and images of the future. If all you have are the thoughts that you are already thinking and the view of the future that you already have, then you will never be transformed. We are

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Dr. Stieglitz

Aug 9, 2018
1 min

Breakfast with Solomon - Psalm 1:2

We too often allow the defeatest mentality of those around us to become the dominant thoughts of our life. This is a problem. God is soverei

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Affirmation #11: Your Action Is Required

Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Apr 18, 2018
5 min

Affirmation #11: Your Action Is Required

Without action, faith and the power of God never combine to thrust your life forward. You will remain stuck without action. It may be fun to

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Affirmation #10: Renew Your Mind - Part 1

Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Apr 11, 2018
5 min

Affirmation #10: Renew Your Mind - Part 1

You’ve probably heard the saying, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” (Prov 23:7) This means that you can become what you think! So,

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Affirmation #9: Pay Attention to Feedback

Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Apr 4, 2018
5 min

Affirmation #9: Pay Attention to Feedback

There is much useful data in negative feedback, so I would like for you to change your feelings about negative feedback. It is simply inform

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Mariann Eitzman

Mar 31, 2018
4 min

Who will you invite to church?

This week in a meeting at work I heard an amazing statistic: one out of every four people you ask, will accept your invitation to church. On

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Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Mar 27, 2018
5 min

Affirmation #8: Set Righteous Goals

God wants us to seek His kingdom and His righteousness first in every area of our life. He has not given us our life to squander it on selfi

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Affirmation #7: Become an Inverse Paranoid

Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Mar 21, 2018
5 min

Affirmation #7: Become an Inverse Paranoid

This verse is paramount to understanding that things that seem hard or difficult or discouraging, God is trying to bless you and move you to

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Dr. Stieglitz

Mar 15, 2018
2 min

Breakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 15:15

The person who views life as just one more way to hold them back has a tough time because in a sin-broken world there are a lot of negative

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Affirmation #6: Believe the Life You Want Is Possible

Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Mar 14, 2018
5 min

Affirmation #6: Believe the Life You Want Is Possible

So many people want to believe there is a whole other life waiting for them on the other side of stuck, and yet they remain stuck. Too often

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Affirmation #5: Learn to Ask for What You Need

Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Mar 6, 2018
5 min

Affirmation #5: Learn to Ask for What You Need

How many of us are discouraged and only expect more of what we already have? I've got good news! We don't have to stay stuck in our

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Affirmation #4: You Were Created for a Purpose

Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Feb 27, 2018
5 min

Affirmation #4: You Were Created for a Purpose

In Ephesians, we find a key verse to a blessed and transformed life. Ephesians 2:10 conveys the message that each and every one of us have b

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What Is Your Relationship with God Really Like?

Mariann Eitzman

Feb 23, 2018
4 min

What Is Your Relationship with God Really Like?

I realized God was having to repeat himself until I saw my blind-side. What was my relationship with God like? Really? If I were honest, it

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Affirmation #3: God is real and worth following.

Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Feb 20, 2018
4 min

Affirmation #3: God is real and worth following.

The writer to the book of Hebrews outlines one of the key transformation principles of all times: you must believe there is something bigger

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Affirmation #2: You are responsible for your own choices.

Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Feb 13, 2018
4 min

Affirmation #2: You are responsible for your own choices.

We have become convinced by the culture around us that we are not responsible for the choices that we make or the life we build through thos

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Transformed Series Introduction, Getting From Stuck to Unstuck

Dr. Gil Stieglitz

Feb 9, 2018
5 min

Transformed Series Introduction, Getting From Stuck to Unstuck

The first affirmation which moves us from stuck to transformed is fully believing that God is for us and not against us in every area of lif

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