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Below are a number of my latest thoughts that I would like to share with you in hopes that we could consider them together. Feel free to leave any thoughts you may have in the comments section after any of the blog posts.

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21
AUG
2013

The Epidemic of Loneliness

In July of 2013 I took some ideas written by Rick Baugh, added some quotes from others and sent them to most of my friends and spiritual companions. The request was for them to read and to send back their insights. The response gave me many new insights – only some of which I...
03
AUG
2013

Stepping Into Shadows

Stepping into Shadows – By Kay Hotaling             The Apostle John tells us in his first letter that we are invited into fellowship, Koinonia, or partnership with God and with the people of God and that the experience of this partnership depends upon “walking in the...
23
JUL
2013

Yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod

                  THE YEAST OF THE PHARISEES AND OF HEROD             In April Bob Hunter and I were in East Africa.  Each day we spent time studying the ideas of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark.  One day we came across the statement of Jesus, “Watch out for the yeast of the...
22
JUL
2013

Reflections about a Core

Some thoughts about a Core               I wrote the following at the request of a friend in Canada who asked what my experience had taught me in praying for a province or a country.            That we will begin to see our country as Jesus sees it and we will engage in...
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...
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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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