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Chad's Personal Writings and Reflections

It’s my pleasure to serve through all that I do. It’s an honor to the one saved us from ourselves. Edwards Resolution #62 speaks very directly to this fact and why we should ensure that all our efforts are done with a joyful attitude. Photo by Petr Sevcovic on Unsplash

It’s My Pleasure… but You’re Not THE Boss of Me

My pleasure. I thought I was pretty wise when I decided to start saying that whenever anyone would thank me for the work I had done for them. I thought I was pretty smart. That is, I thought I was smart until  learned it was the phrase Chick Fil-A employees are...

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We build relationships while being mindful of our talk; taking careful action to ensure our hearts are aimed at building people up, and not tearing them down. Likewise, we are all flawed, and casting judgement or others is not our task at hand. Refraining from hateful thoughts and speech is freeing.

Resolve to Build Relationships with Love and Cheerfulness of Heart

There’s a lot of focus on how we build relationships throughout many areas. I find it to be true in my business trade, my ministry work, my roles at church, and in so many others. Some will call it customer service, experience management, or any of dozens of other...

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Christian living should bear spiritual fruit. This is evident in Edwards resolutions, where you’ll find they span matters of time, relationships, sin, human nature, behavior, motives,service, and more to frame a context for Christian living and development.

Bearing Spiritual Fruit, Resolutions and Jonathan Edwards

For Jonathan Edwards, resolutions were instructions for living. It’s well chronicled that he wrote 70 resolutions and read them daily throughout life. He followed them and relied upon them for sustaining strength with the ultimate intention being the development of a...

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