We all have moments of overwhelm and of overflow. Yep - you, too. What can you do when the project or circumstance in front of you is daunting and you are overwhelming? And THEN, how can you make the most of those moments when your heart soars in overflow and...
As I look at popular online resources and what’s available from Christian content providers, I find two issues: 1) The best content is practical and addressing real issues about being productive and successful, but completely devoid of a real Christian, much less New...
Change is brewing I set up Stacia’s coffee each night for the next day, and then in the morning, smell it brewing. begins to make me stir. I go down and make my own coffee… you see, not only do I prefer it totally fresh, but her coffee - that I love making...
In Jesus' day, "yoke" had a double meaning in the rabbinical sense. First, A rabbi's yoke was his doctrine or system of biblical interpretation. Common variances between the Jewish yoke of doctrine included which laws were most important, how strict "resting" on the...
The new millennium is a pressure cooker of false “okayness”. The pressure to be okay, especially in the religious and successful culture of secular and religious humanism, is inspiring inauthentic images of life at best, and at worst, causing people to give up on life...
Whenever an author or communicator compels us to "step up" to or to be more dedicated to, perform more diligently, or strive more steadfastly to do what God desires/requires so that we might experience, as a result, what God wants for us, it is always paired with the...
Does God see you as righteous in Christ? Or holy? Or worthy? Or blameless and uncondemned? The truth is that the message of grace - the Gospel - has absolutely nothing to do with how God sees you. Grace has everything to do with how He has actually made you. You are...
Grace Tribe - we can know who we are and still struggle at times with who others think we are, can’t we? Once someone has an idea about you - right or wrong - they will judge everything from you in the light of that assumption. Everything will reinforce what they...
The Social Mirror I spent this evening in a Zoom call with a senatorial candidate’s prayer team - in Florida. Only one person knew me (he'd organized the call). I wasn’t teaching or recruiting donors. The candidate wasn’t even on the call until the very end. It wasn’t...
The world is crappy. There, I said it. It’s okay. We all know it. The glass-half-empty people will be happy to hear me say it (ironic that they’re happy about anything, right?). The hopelessly optimistic people (again, ironic) pretend that thinking things are better...
My sweet wife reminded me recently about a contractor coming over to our house that morning. We didn't know exactly what time, but we knew it was anytime between seven and noon! I went bounding up the stairs, threw on clothes to work outside, and then proceeded to...
"…Pilate said to him, 'Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?' But He gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed." — Matthew 27:13, 14 ESV At the time of this writing, I’ve recently been attacked by...