In our hyper-connected social media driven world, many people have an actual fear of missing out. Called FOMO, the fear of missing out robs people of living lives of purpose because they become consumed with being in all the right places at all the right times in order to post all the right pictures on […]
I was listening to a Ted talk about rebuilding trust. The speaker is a Harvard business professor who took on the challenge of helping a multinational corporation address several serious breaches of internal and public trust. She talked about the three essential building blocks of trust: empathy, authenticity and logic. I asked myself, how might […]
It was an unusual speaking opportunity. The audience would be comprised of 500 people and more than a hundred dogs. The conference theme? With me on the road. And as the keynote speaker, I could take the “with me” command and run with it. And I did. Among the commands these comfort dogs learn are […]
There’s a reason God addresses idolatry in the first commandment. The temptation to be like God or at least live in the fantasy of being revered as a god is very real today. For those who want to develop a religion based around themselves as a deity, there’s now a game for that. It’s called Godhood. […]
The apostle Paul complimented the people of Thessalonica that they took God at His Word. First Thessalonians 2:13 reads, “We thank God constantly for this: that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word […]
Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? 21st century gardeners use everything from coffee grounds to compost to egg shells to fish to enrich the soil and encourage the production of more abundant crops. But if you’re desperate, there’s a commercial product called Miracle Grow. And it really works! Let’s apply that to […]