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Kent Hotaling
18
JUL
2013

Loyalty

LOYALTY – A reflection from 2 Timothy four                               The Apostle Paul sat in chains in a Roman prison praying that the small struggling fellowships scattered all over the Roman Empire might survive, grow and reproduce.  In the same way that Jesus left the...
17
JUL
2013

Learning from Anger

LEARNING FROM ANGER              About twenty years ago Kay and I were driving along and I asked a question that got an answer I had not expected.  We had just been with a friend who was struggling with anger that was harmful to him and to those close to him.  Musingly I asked...
17
JUL
2013

Community and Intimacy

Community and Intimacy  “There has been a great growth of group movements in modern days.  They are attempts to put back into the church the koinonia, the fellowship of the Acts.  I used to think that the church was born out of Pentecost, but the church is not named until the...
17
JUL
2013

A Perfect Heart

A Perfect Heart              “Let your hearts therefore be perfect before the Lord your God.”                These words of King Solomon to the people of God have challenged my thinking for years.  Recently a few of us have been studying what the Bible teaches about...
17
MAY
2013

Blog Introduction

Let us consider together For over 50 years I have been a follower of Jesus – some of the time in ways that pleased him and others and sometimes so poorly it neither pleased him, me, or others.  However, I’ve stayed on the journey because of the women and men who have walked with...
17
MAR
2012

Random thoughts about Finishing Well

To Finish Well Kay and I have been praying for ourselves and for many of our companions that we would “finish well”.  Frank Consalvo asked what that means.  My initial response was that I was going to let the Lord decide what that was, but then decided maybe God wanted me to...
17
DEC
2011

A Reflection on Loss

My laptop died – and also some companions on my journey with Jesus. The death of a laptop is inconvenient but with a small amount of money and more patience than I possess one can move on without a large sense of loss.  Roy Thompson lost his son over a decade ago.  He said you...
17
JAN
1999

Stay by the Stuff

(I Samuel 30:1-25) Our grandson, Thomas, was five years old.  It was field day for the grade school and kindergarten kids were to participate with grades 1-6.  He was shy and did not like to perform in public.  The teacher was compassionate and wise.  When he refused to take part...
17
OCT
1996

Mending Nets

A study which has been helpful in relating to those close to me comes from l Corinthians l:l0:  “I appeal to you .  . .  that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought” In this passage the words “perfectly united” are a translation of the word...
17
AUG
1993

Jesus Christ in Every Culture

Acts 10:1-48 Many have observed that the message of Jesus Christ becomes limited in its appeal because we attach national, religious, theological and institutional cultures to the message of Jesus.  In truth the only thing we can properly communicate across these human barriers...
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About Kent Hotaling

Kent HotalingFor over 50 years I have been a follower of Jesus – some of the time in ways that pleased him and other times so poorly it neither pleased him, me, or others. However, I have stayed on the journey because…

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