Time and Chance

A blog by Justin N. Poythress, Pastor in Boise, Idaho

Wisdom is like a sherpa

You must know and confess that you need direction from somewhere else – that left to your own resources, you actually won’t travel down…
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We’ve all got a boss

Org charts and hierarchical structures matter, and the interplay of those relationships are fragile, precious, and borderline sacred, even if we would prefer that…
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Marginalized Oppressors

Don’t assume, because you have experienced poverty or marginalization of some sort, that you are automatically above inflicting the same sort of oppression that…
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Dealing with false accusations

In our world, name-calling and labeling is often a shortcut substitute for the hard labor of moral reasoning. You can quickly find yourself on…
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Wearing out your welcome

As much as we might wish this was not the case, and plead the contrary, we conduct all our relationships within a transactional frame.
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Wisdom can help you win

When we enlist the pursuit of wisdom to strive for an optimal outcome, what we are seeking is to align our own thinking as…
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