Robert Noland – Page 7 – Robert Noland

Report vs. Repent

If we lose focus, if we don’t maintain our humility, our prayers can move to simply reporting to God what we did wrong, kind of like a news anchor telling the camera what happened today. We can quickly and non-emotionally sound off a list of what we did wrong and make the assumption that because […]

The Goldilocks Syndrome

We all know the story of Goldilocks—the little girl who wandered into the bears’ home. She saw their porridge sitting on the table and ended up taking some of everyone’s and eating all of one bowl. She tried sitting in every chair to find the one that best fit her, only to break the smallest […]

Information vs. Transformation

(First, please accept my apologies for the video glitch last week. I embedded the Youtube link into the actual post but then didn’t know that Mailchimp would not recognize it when sent out. If you missed it and would like to view, click here.) The past couple of years I have come to have a […]

The Saturating Savior

I recently spoke at the South Carolina United Methodist’s Men’s Conference. (app. 1200 men—if you know anything about men’s ministry today, its incredibly hard to get that many men to show up at events so ‘well done’ to those guys.) After finding out a particular man’s testimony from the year before when I had spoken there, […]

Movie Trailers vs Film Clips

The movie trailer has become a crucial marketing tool for the release of a movie. Most films now have 4 to 6 different versions of trailers with varied content and time lengths. A growing pattern in movie reviews written by actual people is they will say that all the best scenes, the funniest scenes, the most […]

Pedestal vs Platform

We’re living in a precarious day where pedestals and platforms are being confused. So what’s the difference? A pedestal is where you display something that you want to be seen. It’s all about the object on display. Pedestals are intended to be in a fixed place for people to come and see and admire. A platform […]

Airport Interactions vs Dinner Table Dialogue

Last week I spent 2 days in meetings with a team of men working on a project where each one was at the table because of the particular area of expertise in which each excelled. We spent many hours engaged in the what’s and how’s and why’s of getting this project out to the public. As […]

The Sequoia Life

The largest living things on earth are the giant sequoias found in northern California. These massive trees cover over 35,000 acres in the northwest corner of the United States. Here are a few facts about these unique creations of God: The largest sequoia tree on earth is the General Sherman, in Sequoia National Park of […]

Taking the Plunge(r)

I need to warn you: This is going to be a really crappy message. When you have taken care of business, and you hit the handle on the commode, and you don’t hear the same familiar gush and swoosh of water you are accustomed to, but rather you hear a sudden stop of the flow […]

Open & Shut Case

For the past 7-8 years, we’ve had a miniature Yorkie dog. He weighs about 6-7 pounds. If you shaved him, he’d weigh about 4, probably. When he doesn’t want to go outside, get a bath, or do whatever it is you want him to do at the time, he’s so small he can hide in […]