Category Archives for Spiritual Growth

The ABC’s of Marriage (Part 3)

Dating was so easy, but marriage seems so hard. At least that’s what appears to be the consensus. I continue to hear that marriage is hard work. I’d have to disagree with that sentiment. What is actually being said is that apologizing is hard. Submitting to the ideas of another is hard. Missing a must-see […]

Lost and Found

A while back I lost my driver’s license.  First time that has ever happened to me.  No big deal, right?  After all, how many times have I had to pull it out and show it to a police officer in the last two decades?  None. Actually the only time I need to pull out my […]

Beware of Rabbit-Foot Theology!

We have all done it. Somewhere in the back of our minds we start thinking that if we do such and such God is then obligated to answer our prayer or come through for us. In short, if we do our part, then God cannot let us down. Otherwise He will not look so good. […]

Saying “No” is Crucial

As life moves forward at the speed of light I have found that the natural tendency is to say yes and add, add, and add some more. When football season arrives that has to get added in.  That’s Saturday, Sunday, Monday night, and Thursday night.  Then there is more reading and more meetings and more […]

Encouragement: Antidote to a Quitter Culture

One of the inevitabilities of life and the ministry is that people will abandon you.  Not everyone will go the distance with you. The fact is, we live in a quitter culture.  People walk away from their jobs, their spouses, their new year’s resolutions, and their churches. Near the end of the apostle Paul’s ministry […]

Doesn’t God Care?

When I was about three or four years old my mother took all four (four at the time) of the kids with her to the store.  The only problem was that when she left, she left me standing on the sidewalk. Now that was in the day when you could leave your child alone and […]

Under His Wings

Ultimate Satisfaction!

A while back Carol and I wandered into Hot Cakes, a small cafe with excellent food. We just went in for desert and it was very difficult to narrow it down to just one. So I settled for the Napoleon. Let’s just say it knocked my socks off! Satisfaction to the max.  As we left […]

Are You Indispensable?

Recently I had coffee with a friend who had worked with Lou Gerstner, one of my favorite CEO’s.  Back in the 1990’s IBM was about to go under. They reported the biggest corporate loss of all time, and Gerstner was brought in to restructure and rebuild the company. While initially IBM was forced to lay […]

Feeling Under Appreciated?

Have you ever been in a group setting where the compliments were being dished out, only to realize none were coming your way? This is huge, so let’s take just a moment to think about how it can impact you. Feeling under appreciated has led many to leave their jobs, their marriages, and their friends. […]