Or… Taking the venom out of toxic people For the last ten years or so, I have been privileged to serve on the faculty of a small local college, where I spend time with young men and women who are seeking God’s best for their lives. My job in part Read more…
As I have been preparing for a fresh study of David’s life, I am struck again by the value of strong, mutually beneficial relationships that serve to strengthen one another and build principled truth into the lives of each person. We usually view the relationship between David and Jonathan as Read more…
I just read an article from the Wall Street Journal that said, Don’t quit your job on the first day… Now, I wonder if there is anything for us? My daughter became engaged on Christmas Eve; significant for me because 39 years ago, Debbie and I entered into a bond Read more…
My oldest son is a man of tradition: When once asked if he like to “think outside of the box”, he replied that instead, he would “rather create new boxes to think inside of“. Classic answer. So in what has come to be a tradition at our house, we viewed Read more…
I have been thinking about all the things that on the surface appear simple. We routinely enter the hospital these days for a surgical procedure to repair our knees or hips and find that we are often being released on the same day as the surgery was completed. Amazing! Backs Read more…
The Great Retreat from real spiritual transformation begins with smaller losses of investment… When is the last time you meditated? Did you know that it could be a part of a healthy and productive regimen for you? So says, Daniel Goleman, writing in the Wall Street Journal this past week. Read more…
My Father had three births of sorts- He was born to his parents in 1918; experienced a spiritual rebirth when he trusted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior in 1968, and then in 1977, he rediscovered the joy of living in a new place, now free from the burden of Read more…
The other day a colleague shared a experience he had recently endured that exposed him to as he called it, “a moral dilemma.”His solution for solving it was, let’s just say, creative, but it did get me to thinking– it always does. I wonder if all the “dilemmas” we endure, Read more…
It’s been a particularly rough month for men, especially older men who are in positions of prominence, power or influence. Revelations surrounding the moral behavior of Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken, and now, Charlie Rose has reminded us that depravity is not owned by one particular political party, social strata, or Read more…
Ok, Let’s face it; there’s a lot to stress us out there these days, and at any given moment we may find our resilience waning. Why are some people just more resilient than others? We all know of those, famous and otherwise, who have survived tremendous trauma because of their Read more…
