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  • The Library Doesn’t Want My Book and I’m Happy About it

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    Chad Gramling

    It’s coming up on ten years since my book, Baseball in Fort Wayne was first published. In my most recent book, Listen Up, Kids, I share the events that allowed that dream to became a reality. It’s a remarkable story that really shows the way God is faithful to his children, how he is always preparing and ordering our…

  • How Survival Instinct & Comfort Zones Screwed Us Up

    How Survival Instinct & Comfort Zones Screwed Us Up

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    Chad Gramling

    Human beings are wired with a survival instinct.  Some call it our reptilian brains and many are quick to reference Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as evidence. There has been a lot of more recent neuroscience to further affirm this human need for survival at all costs. This human nature, though, blurs the line between…

  • How to Know if You’re Pleasing God Through Your Actions

    How to Know if You’re Pleasing God Through Your Actions

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    Chad Gramling

    While spending this month considering God’s favor and wisdom, I’ve been continually reminded of a question I ponder often: how do we know if we are pleasing God? Specifically, what is pleasing to God and how do we go about pleasing God? This is the subject of a post I started researching several months…