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Encouragement for the second half
Articles to help adults 55+ keep serving, mentoring, and finishing strong
Dream Forward!
One major drawback of circled-wagon age segmentation is a stifling of the Spirit. It can also spill over into racial and socio-economic segregation, where we mainly look out for the interests of other
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Dying, Dead ... Or Just Dormant?
We’ve discovered while working with adults over fifty that some dormant periods are common. Where we get into trouble as leaders is mistaking temporary setbacks for signs of death, “the beginning of t
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Pushing Through Setbacks
Little did I know that just minutes after the above photo was taken that I would lose complete control of the left side of my body.Like the leader of a local faith community who approached Jesus and c
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The 'Wow' Factor
We don’t serve to wow others, but God can sure use willing hearts to help inspire.Never underestimate the value of meaningfully engaging the very young and very old in serving. Don’t write them off …
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Boldly GO!
Retirement was never about unplugging from serving, sharing, and giving ... or going. This was in our DNA; this kind of living wasn’t going away. So we positioned ourselves for being available, useful
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Are You Living Your Dream?
With a simple heart pivot, God can transform present vocational or situational perspectives so that we can readily attest, “YES! I’m right where God wants me for now, living out His dream for my life.
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Afterglows
In these last days of 2018 and in this new year ahead with life’s busyness, we hope you’ll take time for afterglows with loved ones. And may all of our lives - lived out in the afterglow of Jesus comi
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Better Outcomes in All Retirement Stages
Retirement is obviously a very culturally-based phenomenon. For nearly a century Americans have shared the notion that vocational retirement will commonly occur around the mid-sixties.But how do we as
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53 Plus a Lifetime
Scarcity (one of only nine Supreme Court seats) collided with abundance (potential for decades of influence).In most over-fifty contexts, we tend to emphasize the scarcity—not abundance—of significant
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Home With Jesus
We’ve heard some people at his ripe age of ninety declare that they’ve outlived all of their friends. Not Papa Don. He had a constant stream of friends and family—all ages—visiting and calling him in
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Plugging In
We need the Holy Spirit actively involved in our lives, both individually and corporately. We can’t leave the power cord unplugged. We need the Holy Spirit to help us overcome fear, at all stages of l
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Are We Assets or Liabilities?
One challenge we face with Christian adults on the plus side of fifty … is the fact that Jesus went to the cross at age thirty-three. We don’t have accounts of Him traversing the pre-frail, frail, and
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