Author: cheez
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Christmas TV Specials & Home Exchanges
Love is in the air during the Christmas season. Once again, the Hallmark Channel is featuring love and home exchanges in their TV specials. We’re addicted to all things, “home exchange.” So, of course, we watched “Debbie Macomber’s Trading Christmas” one more time this year. The plot for this flick involves serendipitous romance at two…
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Hospitality and Christian Home Exchange
I have a great app on my cell phone called “Fighter Verse.” My memory verses for this week are Romans 12:11-13. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. This…
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Home Swaps Mantra
As a real estate broker, I have often quoted the mantra–and you all know it–location, location, location. The value of the home you are looking at depends on its location. In the world of home exchanges, the value of your experience depends on a different mantra–flexibility, flexibility, flexibility. The best home exchange belongs to those…
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Leadership Matters And So Does Your Sabbatical
A certain type of self-understanding is essential for the parish pastor who wants to be a great leader. I appreciate Anthony B. Robinson’s insights into the importance of the pastor’s self-understanding for leadership in the parish in Robinson’s article, “Leadership That Matters.” Robinson draws his insights from James MacGregor Burns (Leadership, 1978), Edwin H. Friedman…
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Christian Community of Home Exchangers
If you have ever thought of doing a home exchange–and you are a Christian–why not help build the Christian Community at archive.christianhomeexchange.com/? One benefit of this Christian Home Exchange organization is that it is part of an international home swap network with over 40,000 listings so you can easily find someone with whom to do…
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How Long Or Short Can My Home Exchange Be?
How long or short can my home exchange be? What do you want it to be? Do not rule out the benefit of a home swap because of your assumptions about what is involved. One of the common misunderstandings is that you have to plan on a month or longer if you want to do…
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Baby Boomers—Tourists or Travelers?
Article after article today laments the economic downturn and the effect this will have on Baby Boomers who haven’t saved for retirement. “Retirement.” I hope that is a word my fellow Baby Boomers will never use. Remember when we were going to change the world? Well, perhaps the current economic reality is just what we…
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Home Exchanges Are All About People
One of the often mentioned reasons for doing a home exchange is the opportunity to “live like a local.” This summer, after our home exchange, we realized that another benefit is that you get to meet the local people. We were doing a home swap in southwest England. The check-out clerk at the local grocery…