The headline was clear. The accused had been convicted and the sentence was life. Galatians 2:20 is my life sentence. It acknowledges that “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.” When you hear the phrase “life sentence” my guess is you think of the former and […]
I volunteered to help an organization with a mission I believe in evaluate their current program and brainstorm how they might improve. Their ministry is to mentor middle school students. In preparation for the day-long meeting, I was asked to read evaluations offered by students who had left the program. One stands out in my […]
Do you make lists? I do. I have a list for the day, the week, the month, the year, and lists in my mind related to the future. Many things on my list do not get done. I migrate some things from one day to the next or one year to the next but the […]
Toward the end of their lives, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson, “My friend, we have lived in serious times.” Serious times call for serious people who live serious lives applied to serious things. I contend that the days in which we live are no less serious than the days of Adams and Jefferson. The […]
As the World Turns was a CBS soap opera that aired for 54 years. But even that long run was not enough to lay claim to longest or even second longest daytime soap opera. Those records belong to General Hospital and Guiding Light. The very fact that so many people have spent so much of […]
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 […]
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 […]