Temple Grandin Presenting at TED Conference
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
John 5:2-9
How Jesus Loved People
Jesus loved this man, even though anyone else would consider him a lost cause.
How to Love Like Jesus
I spoke with someone today who told me about a disabled man he once cared for in an adult foster home. The disabled man’s name is Daniel. Daniel is angry all the time, he can’t speak, or do much of anything to take care of himself. After working there for awhile my friend was surprised to learn, that up until five years previous, Daniel was happy, and could speak and communicate very well. But Read More
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Old Man: Over the years I’ve had a bunch of different “things.” When I was in high school and college, sex was my thing–I was consumed with looking for opportunities. Read More
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Posted on December 11, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Love Like Jesus–Make Disciples: Matthew 5:1
How Jesus Loved People
Jesus loved people by teaching and training them how to follow God. Jesus loved people by making them into His disciples.
How to Love Like Jesus
It was in the wee hours of the morning, at the fire department, when I responded to a house fire along with three engines and a truck company. When we arrived we quickly realized it was the same house that had burned in the wee hours the morning before. We were sure we had put it out completely the first time, yet here we were again.
There was no time to dwell on the cause of our repeat performance, we had a fire to put out. So we set about our business. But as we progressed, I began to hear someone yelling over a loudspeaker. Eventually I figured out it was coming from a car dealership across the street. A man who appeared to be inebriated was yelling obscenities at us. Read More
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Posted on December 8, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Steve Jobs, Jesus, and Anger: Genesis 49:5-7
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Steve Jobs’ Anger at Apple
I love apple products. I bought an Apple IIC when they first came out (to this day I can say that was the best keyboard I ever set my fingers upon). I love my iPhone. I love to Face-time with my family when we’re away from each other. I even love Apple commercials, especially the one where the girl throws the hammer at the big screen with Big Brother talking. Steve Job’s penchant for perfection resulted in some amazing products and some incredible marketing. But he also had an anger problem.
In 1985 Jobs’ boss, John Sculley, who was then the CEO of Apple, decided to remove Jobs from his position as head of the Macintosh division. When Sculley gave Jobs the news, Read More
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Posted on December 6, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Love Like Jesus–Even If It Disrupts Your Sabbath: Mark 3:3-6
How Jesus Loved People
Jesus cared more about loving the man with the withered hand, than He did about keeping the Pharisee’s tradition concerning the Sabbath.
How to Love Like Jesus
She was walking on the shoulder of the road, in bare feet, on a day when it was too cold to be out in bare feet. Her mascara ran in the shape of a capital U down both cheeks. She was crying. No, she was sobbing.
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Posted on December 1, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Sex and Your Future–Trading Forty Five Minutes for 1,000 Years: Genesis 49:1-28
Jacob called for his sons and said: “Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.” Genesis 49:1
Living Life Like James Bond
I have a friend, Kent, whose life was a little bit like a James Bond movie–at least for a couple of years. When he was in his twenties, he used to deliver Top Secret documents to a government location he won’t permit me to disclose. He traveled with a Halliburton attache case handcuffed to his wrist. He carried a 45 Colt in a shoulder holster, and a 38 Smith and Wesson on his ankle for backup. He was a nice looking guy and, not surprisingly, women found his secret agent persona attractive. Several female flight attendants made themselves sexually available to him. He decided to take them up on their offers. He was married at the time.
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Posted on November 29, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Love Like Jesus — Love and the Sabbath: Mark 2:27
How Jesus Loved People
Jesus loved people effectively by keeping the Sabbath.
How to Love Like Jesus
Looking back, the times in my life when I was enthusiastically keeping the Sabbath were the times I was loving people more like Jesus. But there have been a few times in my life when the cult of busy-ness caused the Sabbath to become a casualty.
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Posted on November 24, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Thanksgiving and Chicago’s Dan Ryan Expressway
He was coming up over a hill at sixty-five miles per hour on the Dan Ryan Expressway. His three year-old son was doing what many three year-olds did in those days, he was standing up in the middle of the back seat, so he could see out the windshield. Suddenly, as he came up over the rise, there were wrecked cars everywhere. There was no time to react. The situation was impossible. A high speed impact was unavoidable. Read More
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Posted on November 21, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Love Like Jesus — Love With Loyalty: Matthew 12:1-2
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“Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath,” the Pharisees said. Jesus’ disciples were under attack. Read More
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Posted on November 17, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Why Some People Have One More Than Their Brothers: Genesis 48:21-22
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Baby Boomer Behavior
Lately I’ve noticed the abundance said and written by twenty and thirty-somethings about how “that miserable baby boomer generation has failed us.”
“They’re greedy geezers.”
“They’re leaving us a great burden of debt.”
“The leaders from their generation are short sighted and selfish.”
“It’s as though they threw a big party and left it to us to clean up their mess.”
And besides all that, “They told us we could be anything we wanted as long as we put our minds to it. I found out recently — I can’t be an astronaut after all.”
Let me just tell you what I think about all these statements, they’re all undeniably Read More
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Posted on November 15, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Love Like Jesus — Love the Lost Cause: John 5:2-9
Temple Grandin Presenting at TED Conference
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
John 5:2-9
How Jesus Loved People
Jesus loved this man, even though anyone else would consider him a lost cause.
How to Love Like Jesus
I spoke with someone today who told me about a disabled man he once cared for in an adult foster home. The disabled man’s name is Daniel. Daniel is angry all the time, he can’t speak, or do much of anything to take care of himself. After working there for awhile my friend was surprised to learn, that up until five years previous, Daniel was happy, and could speak and communicate very well. But Read More
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Posted on November 10, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Love Like Jesus — Drink New Wine: Luke 5:39
Wineskin in Nazareth
“…no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.'”
-Jesus Christ (Luke 5:39)
How Jesus Loved People
Jesus loved people by remaining open and sensitive to the Holy Spirit, even when the Spirit was doing something new.
How to Love Like Jesus
I heard a sermon awhile back from a pastor I love and respect. In fact, in my opinion, he’s one of the best I’ve ever heard. But in this particular sermon, he railed against setting up a Facebook page: “A Facebook page — REALLY?” His motive is valid, he’s concerned about narcissism in the church — a valid concern if I ever heard one! But I believe he’s also missing out on new wine God is pouring upon the world today.
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Posted on November 5, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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Love Like Jesus — Fast: Luke 5:35
Luke 5:35
How Jesus Loved People
Jesus loved people by fasting for them. He fasted for you. He fasted for me. He fasted for all of us.
“Hey, wait a minute,” you might be saying right now. “When did Jesus fast for me? He wasn’t fasting when He said those words in Luke 5:35.”
Of course you’re right. Read More
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Posted on November 3, 2012 by Kurt Bennett
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