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50 Thing I’ve Learned in 50 Years

by Craig Finnestad February 1, 2020

Freedom in life comes when you can say something like: “I’m cool with you not liking me. Not everybody has good taste.” Make three lists. A) The people you like to spend time with. B) The things you like to…

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Thoughts on Last Night’s Debate

by Craig Finnestad October 16, 2019

(Short on time this week. Here is a column I wrote on October 20th, 2016 – three years ago. I know there was a presidential debate last night. Here is why I didn’t watch three years ago and why I…

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Eleven Steps to Forgiveness

by Craig Finnestad June 8, 2018

I get this question a lot: How do I accept God’s forgiveness and live as a forgiven person? Here is an eleven-step path. They aren’t eleven sequential steps. No two people are the same. We all come to the journey…

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Good Friday Prayer

by Craig Finnestad April 14, 2017

A prayer for Good Friday. From Prayers from The Water’s Edge. Dear God, I take this moment to recall and honor Your great love. It was the day creation turned on the Creator. It was the day Peter denied Jesus.…

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by Craig Finnestad March 22, 2017
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Forgiveness

by Craig Finnestad August 15, 2016

My chapter on forgiveness on Trampled By Geese is done and sent to the editor. Here are some highlights. Forgiveness is not able to revise past words and actions, but it can and does give us a better future. A…

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I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out. -John Wesley

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