We are almost two weeks into January. How are we doing? Hanging onto those New Year Resolutions? Hopefully, you’re making progress on your “just five things.” (See last post: To Resolve or Not to Resolve) The New Year is Gone Sometimes our grip on the New Year starts to loosen right about now, right around […]
That is the New Year’s question. It used to be assumed that everyone made New Year’s Resolutions and magazine articles and sermons were tailored accordingly. Then came a wave of thinking that said since we don’t keep resolutions past February, why torture ourselves by making resolutions? Let’s just forget the resolutions and go on with […]
I have to tell you that October is one of my favorite months of the year. It’s a beautiful fall transition month, it’s Scott’s birthday month and it’s my testimony month–the month I personally celebrate the fact that I’m still here…because in October of my senior year of high school, I wasn’t sure I wanted […]
Have you heard the expression, “When it rains, it pours,”? Sometimes life does seem like that. In just the past three weeks, we’ve had a death in the family, a girlfriend had a mastectomy for breast cancer, our youth pastor broke his back and had surgery; and another pastor friend was in the hospital with […]
Creating Our World I think one of the most amazing principles at work in our world is the creative power of our words. We can literally create a great deal of our world, of our lives, by what we say. Sound like hocus-pocus? Not all all. (This is a Biblical blog. No hocus-pocus here.) We […]
Great Plans I had great plans for my blog this month—oops, I guess I mean last month. That’s how fast time has been flying by. I should say…I had great plans for this blog in August! I even wrote up a Blog Calendar with writing topics for each day I would post. I already have […]
To Fly or Not to Fly Growing up, I always loved airports. I just loved the atmosphere—all the people coming and going, the planes landing and taking off, the very air vibrating with the wonderful world of “travel.” I was sure I would LOVE to fly. The first time I got on a plane (that […]