"My son, listen to your father's advice.Don't turn away from your mother's teaching.What they teach you will be like a beautiful crown on your head.It will be like a chain to decorate your neck."Proverbs 1:8-9 (NIRV) Last week I had the opportunity to speak to our church staff on a ...
Years ago during my stint with the national men’s ministry, Promise Keepers, an interviewer suggested to me that while women were in need of encouragement, men needed “a kick in the pants.” I immediately took issue with her perspective. “No,” I countered, “men ...
A couple weeks ago I took my wife’s new-used “mid-life Chrysler” in for a check-up. It came back from our mechanic with a generally clean bill of health but still required a couple hundred bucks of corrective measures. On one hand, I dreaded asking my mechanic to check things ...
In case you haven’t noticed…our world remains intact. Yes, in spite of all the recent “hoopla” about a Saturday night Armageddon, our sin-stained planet keeps on spinning. Still, I found it fascinating that so many people—mostly unbelievers from what I could ...
I’ve been an avid reader for a long time, probably because decades ago I made a commitment to read an hour a day. I usually get most of my “general” reading in at the start of the day. It typically involves reading and reflecting on two or three Bible ...
