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In just a few hours I will be joining many of you who were unable to attend last week's tremendously informative webinar with my good friend, David Johnson. During

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We had a great turnout for our webinar on Tuesday night with David Johnson. David went over the top sharing practical marketing strategies and proven methods he has used

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David Johnson will be joining me in a live webinar to share the latest insights he has for growing revenue and increasing your response rate. What used to work isn't

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Hello, Friend. As promised, this is your personal invitation to join me along with my good friend, David G. Johnson, for "How to Grow Your Business Now Using 21st Century Tools."

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Hello again... It's not often I run into someone I trust in the business world who really knows how to get results and deliver solid value. My friend, David Johnson is h

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They say the only thing constant is change. Certainly with respect to business or the economy that seems to be true. Right now the economy is teetering along a razor's

Keywords: marketing, relationship  |   8 comments

This is what came to me this morning in my open-ended, set aside time with the Lord… “Along this path, I leave bread for you. Gather it all and eat, that you may have strength for the journey. My Word will become as food to you.

Keywords: will of god word spirit path meditate  |   4 comments

I realize I have not been writing my blog since getting married in March. Life has been very good since then and my focus has been understandably elsewhere. Speaking of focus, I am working on redefining our business objectives. Can’t divulge too much right now, but things, they are a changin’!

Keywords: christian chamber, event, marketplace summit, portland  |   0 comments

I have some big news to share, but before I do, please know that God cares about those who mourn and He offers them beauty for ashes if they will receive it. This is not a process of transforming ashes slowly over time into something beautiful. This is an exchange. One moment you have ashes… the next moment you have beauty. One moment you are mourning… the next moment you have great joy and are dancing (with cappuccino). One moment you have great heaviness… the next moment you are in exuberant praise. This is precisely what has happened to me.

When my first child died six days before Christmas in 1979 I was devastated. On the day we were taking her home from the hospital after recovering from open heart surgery a month earlier, her lungs filled with fluid and she died. She was 18 months old and I loved her as much as a father could love his baby girl and she adored me. At the funeral, God visited us with a Word coming through a brother in Christ who said that God would multiply the fruit of my wife’s womb. In that moment for me, despair left, hope came and death lost its sting. Nine months later we had twins. My grief process was divinely circumvented.

My life is being lived out before you as an example. This is not something I have asked for or in any way desired. I am simply aware of that reality. I have the opportunity on a daily basis to close the curtain or simply step out of the public eye and live my life in quiet victory. But the Lord, I believe, desires more.

Keywords: grief, light, love, opportunity, prisoner, shadow of death, victory  |   32 comments

OK… Listen up my dear friends… You know what I have been through the last few months. The flight that was my life started losing altitude in November, crash landing on January 13th with the loss of the woman that meant everything to me. Then came the struggle for me to get out the craft before it burst into flames and consumed me totally.

Keywords: freedom, grief, healing, loss, posses the gates, shock, struggle  |   24 comments

I have moments. Moments that I wish for no one to know about. Moments that make me literally stagger. Moments that are indescribably difficult. Numbing. Impossible to anticipate. Exceedingly difficult to process, but yet I must. And I do. My soul is being waterboarded, but I will not give it what it wants. It wants out. It wants to run, to distract, to avoid, to hide, to bury itself in any kind of activity or distraction.

Keywords: , destiny, healing, love, pain, peace, truth  |   56 comments

Yesterday, I spent the day alone doing things that are far richer shared with someone very special, but that was not to be. It was the first Valentine’s Day I have ever spent without those simple words, “I love you” being spoken in my ear by someone who did. While I am confident that better days lay ahead, yesterday was not one of them. But I learned something…

Keywords: breathe, expectation, fire, flame, gift, hope, life, molten glass, valentines day  |   27 comments

Today, I am ecstatic. I am sitting in front of my computer writing to you, trying to give expression to the profound work God is doing on the inside of me. I have praise music blaring, tears of joy running down my face and a smile that just won’t quit! It feels like life could not be better. That, despite the fact that I have endured unbearable loss just a few short weeks ago.

Keywords: adoration, celebration, compassion, god's love, healing, peace, praise, worship  |   48 comments

If I could give you anything, I would give you what I am carrying, or perhaps I should say, I would give you what is carrying me. Something supernatural is happening in my life and I am being transformed before my very eyes. You see, last week in Colorado, I was speaking at the KEYS 2010 conference. It was only three short weeks after my wife went to be with Jesus.

Keywords: darkness, expectation. keys conference, healing, purpose, secret place, transformation, treasures  |   45 comments

Last week, I thought it would be appropriate to go through our bedroom closet and pack up my wife’s clothes and give them to Goodwill. I didn’t know what else to do with them. My dear friend Gerry from Canada was staying with me and offered to help. I declined his warm offer and suggested he stay in the next room and read or whatever he wanted to do. I would be fine. (I thought.)

Keywords: haiti, hand to the plow, love, memories, missions  |   19 comments

Less than ninety days ago my life was full, my heart content and my future bright. I enjoyed a rare communion with my wife. We were a circle of two, endlessly supporting, encouraging, comforting and loving each other in so many ways I cannot count. God was in the middle of that circle, but few others were invited in, preferring the intimacy that comes with time well spent with just each other.

Keywords: darkness, joy, riches, thankfulness, treasures  |   75 comments

Less than a fortnight ago, my wife of 24 years (yesterday was our anniversary) entered into the joy of her reward. I am so very happy for her. She fought hard, never wavered, encouraged thousands and died at peace, full of a revelation of God I can only envy. I received so much love and support from you and I read every email and every post, numbering in the thousands. Believe me when I tell you how much your encouragement meant to me. It was crucial.

Keywords: freedom, heaven, raised from the dead, resurrection, reward  |   64 comments

Christian business and financial representatives from at least 15 nations and 40 U.S. states will converge Feb. 3-6, 2010 in Denver at the 3rd Annual Kingdom Economic Yearly Summit (K.E.Y.S.). “We have many of the top Christian marketplace leaders coming together to offer both economic and spiritual strategies and solutions for business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, and financial professionals in today’s troubled times,” said Bruce Cook, event coordinator. The theme for the event is ‘Fathering Marketplace Leaders: Prospering in an Economic Crisis.’

Keywords: chuck vollmer, dr. bruce cook, dr. lance wallnau, dr. pat francis, dr. peter wagner, economic crisis, economic summit, jim barthel, john muratori, keys conference, larry cantrell, os hillman, prospering, rick joyner, robert ricciardelli, tamara lowe, world economic forum  |   6 comments

A note of thanks... I want to thank all of you who reached out to me during our battle and also through my loss. I was humbled by the email sent out by some of those clo

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As many of you know, there has been a very deep work going on in my life. The battle for my wife’s life, and the subsequent loss of that battle is working in me something very significant. It is in the midst of this work that I am scheduled to speak at the upcoming KEYS conference February 3 – 6 in Denver. This was scheduled well before my wife’s illness and then put on hold until we got on the other side of the battle.

Keywords: bruce cook, david van koevering, denver, john muratori, keys conference, kingdom economic summit, lance wallnau, os hillman, robert ricciardelli, tamara lowe  |   13 comments

To all friends of Michael & Brenda Pink, Some of Michael’s close friends and business associates have come together and decided to write to you today with a ver

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Today at 3:40 PM, the light of my life went out. I am, at the moment… inconsolable. She fought to the end, as did I. We could do no more. There is deep sorrow, but no regrets. There are questions in my heart, but no accusations on my lips. God is faithful and true… He is just and kind. He loves like a hurricane… I am a tree, bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy.

Keywords: brenda pink  |   272 comments

I hope you don’t mind but I can only give water from the well I am in. Currently, I am deep in a well not of my choosing. It is deep. It is cold. And in many ways it is so very lonely, despite the fact that there are literally thousands of people looking in and several people spending considerable hours a week in this well with me. For all of you and especially those getting cold and wet with me, I am beyond grateful and words fail me.

Keywords: brenda pink, expectancy, faith, healing, miracle  |   67 comments

On Friday, Brenda required medication which effectively terminated the alternative treatment we were giving her for the last several weeks. The “healing poultice” as we have oft referred to it, is nullified in the presence of most drugs. We had to make the difficult choice between short term survival and long term healing. In the last nine weeks, Brenda slowly lost the ability to eat food, swallow supplements or even drink fluids. For the last two weeks we have been sustaining her by IV, but on Saturday we had to give that a pause. Her body was not processing the fluids. Her extremities were swelling. Her lungs were filling with the fluids that were meant to nourish her. Fever had set in and has raged for days between 101 – 104 degrees.

Keywords: brenda pink, healing, miracle, praise the lord, shofar, spiritual warfare  |   28 comments

This morning I washed Brenda’s hair gently with my own hands, moistened only by the tears flowing unabated down my reluctant cheeks, landing freely on sheet and pillow alike. As I write this update from beside her bed, the Bose is filling the airwaves with Rich Mullin’s Ragamuffin band doing the classic “My Deliverer is Coming… My Deliverer is Standing By”. The moment is pregnant. Heaven watches… Earth waits. Each second, an eternity. Nothing is taken for granted. Here’s the night watch report…

Keywords: brenda pink, cloud of witnesses, healing, hope, love, miracles  |   91 comments

One description I’ve read about that you will find in the book of Psalms goes something like this “you will hear believers crying out to God from the depths of despair, and you will hear them singing to Him in the heights of celebration. But whether despairing or rejoicing, you will always hear them sharing honest feelings with God.”

Keywords: blessings, brenda pink, crying out, encouragement, new year's, psalms, revelation  |   13 comments

My wife lost the ability to communicate verbally several days ago, but during the night Sunday going into Monday morning, she talked incessantly in her sleep. I couldn’t understand her until early morning when I asked her what she was saying to which she simply replied, Praise the Lord! I tried a couple of times to confirm my understanding of her words and each time she clearly, but with difficulty, repeated the phrase, PRAISE THE LORD! It was obvious to me that my wife was on a spiritual plane far above mine at that moment! How she could find praise in the midst of the fiery furnace of physical affliction she is in is remarkable to me. But it gets better…

Keywords: brenda pink, communion, kingdom of heaven, praise the lord, violence  |   75 comments

Often, when someone in business gets on fire for Jesus, their well meaning church encourages them to pursue some ministry in the church or world-mission, or such. Those church-based ministries are all good things. However, a marketplace ministry is a high calling in itself.

Keywords: carpenter, discipling, jesus, marketplace ministry, parables  |   7 comments

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