Ulterior Motives

What if we could all just admit right up front that at least once in our lifetime we had ulterior motives? Ok. Now we can talk. In 1940 a film version of the book The Grapes of Wrath hit the big screen. The movie was about the downside of living during the Great Depression and […]

How’s Your Love Life?

This summer I will be officiating three weddings.  During premarital counseling, the topic of love always surfaces. Is love simply a feeling, or is it an action — something you do? What does love look like?  I Corinthians 13 gives a pretty good definition. 1.  Love is patient. 2.  Love is kind. 3.  Love does not envy. […]

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 […]

Be the Bigger Person

GUEST POST This is a guest post by my 17-year-old son, Gabe Henderson. He’s in 11th grade and wrote this article for a school assignment.  His interests include skiing and golf, and he runs a Minecraft server in his spare time. Have you ever wanted to do something big, but all you get are little […]

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 […]

Let the Power of the Resurrection Change You!

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 […]

The Comeback of Starbucks (Part 2)

The story of how Starbucks almost went away, in fact it’s stock price was well below $10 a share, and how it recovered to where it is profitable and how it’s current stock price is at $60, is in one word, fascinating. This is a great read for any individual or organizational leader to read.  The […]