J O N A T H A N | P E A R S O N

Author: Jonathan Pearson

  • The Power of a Moment

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    Most of life’s up’s and down’s happen within a moment. When we stop and think, many of life’s biggest changes happen in a moment. In a moment, people can go from thinking that we are relatively smart to thinking we’re complete idiots. In a moment, we can make a dumb financial mistake that we pay…

  • Live For Impact

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    Live for impact, not accomplishments. I know that these two sound very similar. Most of the time, we would consider impact an accomplishment. However, I think that a lot of people are really good at accomplishing things, but not many are good at making impact in the process. I am a to-do list kind of…

  • A Thanksgiving Prayer

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    Heavenly Father, I’m so sorry that it takes a national holiday for me to recognize what you have done for me! I’m sorry that so many people in the world confuse thanksgiving with a holiday and fail to realize where their source of blessings come from. I’m sorry that in a country so blessed by…

  • A Thanksgiving Haiku

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    I enjoy turkey, But only with the dressing, Eat turkey Thursday! Many of you had no idea I was such a poet did you? Everyone have a great Thanksgiving!

  • I Must Admit…

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    >I have a problem with sin. >Many days, I don’t feel like getting out of bed, much less thanking God for the opportunity. >When I eat alone, I often don’t even think about saying a blessing. >I get mad at people out of my own jealousy. >I am often nice to people when I see…

  • Things I’m Looking Forward To!

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    Upcoming things I’m looking forward to: November 27th-Thanksgiving December 7th–FaithWeaver launch (a big deal for CBC’ers) December 8th-My last exam! December 13th-Graduation! December 20th-Wedding!! December 20-25th-Honeymoon!! December 25th-Christmas! Need I say more! Anyone want to compete with this upcoming schedule?

  • Why The Bible’s Important

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    Last night, I taught on the importance of the Bible. Here are the 3 reasons I listed as to why the Bible is important (I’m not saying there’s not more): 1) It allows us to know Christ and see how to have relationship with Him. 2) It glorifies God. 3) It tells us how to…

  • Listen, Think, and Act (2)

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    If someone is living and breathing, junk is going to happen. If we are living, we are going to be hit by one of life’s curve balls. Here are some questions I try to think through when something comes that I wasn’t expecting: -Is this something that I can do anything about?  Many times, the…

  • Listen, Think, and Act (1)

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    I’m not an old and wise guy. I haven’t had a ton of life experience, but believe it or not, people do ask me for advice quite regularly. One of the things that bugs the heck out of me is when people ask for my advice and choose to do what they wanted to do…

  • Why Believe In A God?

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    I saw this on the O’Reily Factor last night and started thinking… Why would this ad campaign be appealing? Here are some thoughts: 1) Because there is a lot of bad in the world and most blame it on God. It’s because of God’s sinful people, not Him. 2) Because the church has let the world…