Mighty Oaks Blog
What is Your Standard?
Written by Jeremy Stalnecker What is your standard? This is an important question that impacts, even when we are not conscious of it, every area of life. Take a minute to consider each of these: The value or worth that I find in myself The value or worth of others...
Time Heals All Wounds
By Kenneth Wolff We have all heard the saying, “Time Heals all Wounds,” but does it? As I think about this saying, I cannot help but think about my wounds and my time spent dealing with them and struggling with them. I often wondered, did it need to take this long,...
Cancel Culture and the Christian
Written by Jeremy Stalnecker Unless you are living under a rock and, because of that rock, you do not have access to the internet, you are aware that we are living in a time of “Cancel Culture”. The events that have brought us to this moment are deeply rooted in both...
What is Fair? Outcomes vs. Opportunities
Written by Jeremy Stalnecker Earlier this week I used quite a few words to discuss the issue of “Fairness” in our culture. You can take a look at that here. In that post I did my best to develop an understanding that even though life really is not fair (and can’t be...
Life is NOT fair!
By Jeremy Stalnecker “Life is not fair!” Have you ever said that? If you are like everyone else in the world, the words may not have crossed your lips but the thought has crossed your mind. We all know what its like to look at a world so often in chaos and conclude...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Part 2 You are not broken!
Written By Jeremy Stalnecker As difficult as life can be, it is not difficulty, or the trials, or even those moments when we feel so overwhelmed that we can’t see a way forward that defeat us. The thing that defeats us, that makes us throw in the towel and...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Part 1
Written By Jeremy Stalnecker Post Traumatic Stress Disorder carries with it some very real consequences. Any discussion of PTSd and combat trauma that tries to make coping nothing more than “try harder and get over it” can be extremely discouraging to the person who...
INPUT & OUTPUT ARE THE KEYS TO CHANGING THE WORLD
By Mike Sanders, President and Founder of Junto Tribe As I sit down to write this, Junto Tribe is coming off an off-site vision retreat where we discussed new and fresh direction, renewed strategy and realignment of the ministry, and set a solid path for moving...
We Need Heroes!
Written by Jeremy Stalnecker In my last post I did my best to answer the question: “What is a Hero?” (you can read that here). This often overused word really does have a meaning apart from the “other worldly” fighters of evil that we see portrayed in film....
What is a Hero?
Written By, Jeremy Stalnecker It seems that our culture (meaning American culture) is obsessed with Heroes. From books and movies to the never-ending stream of hero-themed shows and amusement park rides, we love those with superhuman powers used, mostly, for good. The...
Safe and Secure
Written By, Robin Werling The Montana water was cold, very cold. The young man gasped as he sat down into the icy stream as the water curled around his waist. Although he was prepared for the cold, the water still took his breath away as he leaned back into it having...
Clarity in the Chaos
By Jamie Warner It’s safe to say, there was a national tension the week of January 18th so real, so in everyone’s face, that it was tangible. Media outlets were ablaze with inflammatory information as the nation moved toward the Presidential Inauguration Day. There...
