Jul 3, 2018
A year ago at Annual Conference, I connected with a clergy colleague I’d not seen in a long time. For some reason, his FB feed never showed up as I scrolled social media so I had no idea he’d lost a ton of weight. He looked great! He looked fit and healthy . . . and...
Jul 3, 2018
We Keep “Should-ing” All Over Each Other We live in the “Land of Er” . . . words were spoken by Andy Stanley, the pastor of North Point Church in Atlanta, Georgia. We strive to be “ER” . . . Smart-ER Rich-ER Thin-ER Pretty-ER Successful-ER We want to be more than what...
Jul 2, 2018
It’s summertime. So let’s be honest. How many of us will find ourselves either in a conversation with someone about vacation and we begin thinking, “Wow, that sounds really cool! We only did __________. Must be nice to be them.” Or . . . we scroll through Facebook,...
Jun 11, 2018
So often when we think of God, we think of a gender-specific individual with physical attributes. For years “God the Father” has been a phrase used to describe the Trinity, so while there is nothing wrong with that, it limits our view of God . . . and also can inhibit...
May 24, 2018
C.S. Lewis said, “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully with hobbies...
May 23, 2018
Sometimes “ideal” gets in the way. For years when I’ve heard people reference “ideal images of a family” – the show “Leave it to Beaver” came up. This was a television show in the late 50s and early 60s that showed the antics of little “Beaver,” the give and take (and...
