Reading Time: 4 minutes Two months after our wedding The Redheaded-Wildflower [my wife Dee Dee] and I ventured into the magnificent mountains I first …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes When you read the biblical biographies of Jesus, what stands out to you? That though his life was short it …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Who are you? I’m a fan of the Enneagram and all things self-discovery. But quipping, “I’m a Seven or an …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes When I was ten, I tried to invent the zip-line! Instead I broke my tibia and fibula. A compound fracture. …
Reading Time: 5 minutes The experts say washing your hands and keeping social distance are key to staying physically healthy in this crisis. Amen! But are there less obvious, more abstract daily disciplines that will help us navigate these turbulent and dangerous times?
Reading Time: 5 minutes My first call as a pastor was a disaster. Unknown to me when I accepted the job and we moved to Illinois, the senior pastor of the church was involved in his third or fourth affair. The church was so dysfunctional it continually ignored his sin. They responded to me and my family with hate and blame for demanding they do something about it.
Reading Time: 6 minutes It was as if she’d been diagnosed with terminal cancer, a cancer of the soul. We were shattered and terrified. Still we mobilized. We took control.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chesterton begins his brilliant book on how he came to believe Christianity is true with a humorous parable about an …
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Reading Time: 6 minutes You may not realize it, but it’s likely Frank Gilbreth, Sr. impacted your life. Don’t recognize his name? In the …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes “Wrap your arms around yourself or someone you love today,” Pastor Les Avery used to say at the end of …