Archive: September, 2009

Seize Opportunities

You can live full-out without burning out. One of the keys to finding fulfillment is to seize unique opportunities within your current kairos rhythms. When it’s play-off time, go full-out to win. When it’s the off-season, rest and rebuild your capacity. When you are young, with more energy, use it. When you are older and [...]

Your Life In Rhythm Workshop

Your Life in Rhythm Workshop Saturday, October 3, 2009 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM  Bruce Miller, nationally recognized speaker and author, gives you a new way to live with less stress and more fulfillment. In one day you will gain a new paradigm for how to manage your life. Your Life in Rhythm offers a [...]

Release Expectations

Guilt haunts us all. Some of it is deserved—we’ve messed up and we need to confess, apologize, and do what we can to make amends. A lot of our guilty feelings, however, are self-imposed and unnecessary. We sometimes feel guilty for things that are beyond our control or not our fault. We feel guilty because [...]

What’s in a name?

I’ve had a couple of people ask me why we are going by “McKinney Fellowship” instead of “McKinney Fellowship Bible Church.” Some with alarm have asked, “Why did we drop ‘Bible’ from our name?” There is no big issue. We have found that “McKinney Fellowship Bible Church” is a long name. It is hard to [...]

Rhythm Workshop

Thank you for praying for Tamara and I on our vacation that began our empty nest season of life with Ben heading off to UTA a few weeks ago. We climbed a 14,000 peak – Mount Quandary, rode miles on bikes, and read books by a mountain stream. It was an awesome time. I am [...]

Identify Your Life Stage

Knowing your life stage enables you to ride the kairos wave that is before you right now. It helps you avoid trying to ride a wave that has gone by or one that is still on the horizon. Let’s not try to live as if we have an empty nest until the kids are gone; [...]

Two Kinds of Time

It turns out that in Greek mythology, there are two gods associated with the two different kinds of time, which roughly correspond to the Greek words chronos and kairos. Chronos corresponds to regular cycles, and kairos corresponds to progressive flows. Chronos is clock and calendar time, measurable and predictable, recurring in known cycles. Kairos is [...]

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