When challenged to find personal momentum, I often think about a scene from my favorite movie, Steve Martin’s “The Jerk.” It’s a humorous way of reminding us about the importance of taking steps forward rather than standing still. In the movie, Martin’s Navin Johnson...
A new version of Coke was introduced. Nobody liked it. A new version of Pepsi (Crystal Pepsi) was once introduced. I may have been the only person that liked it. Remember when they made a new version of Saved By The Bell called "The New Class" and nobody liked it? For...
Once in a while, there comes a true story so filled with irony that you have to tell it, but fear nobody will believe you. To give you proper context, before I tell you what happened to my lip, I need to provide some background. My father had a beard. Not just any...
One of the most famous quotes from the Kevin Smith classic movie, Clerks, is Dante’s oft-cited refrain of “I’m not even supposed to be here today.” After being forced into work on what he thought was his day off, it’s the go-to mantra that’s quick to mind and just as...
I watched a lot of Nickelodeon as a child. I mean A LOT of it. One show I rarely missed was Mr. Wizard's World. Though I was hardly a science geek, I somehow loved to watch, learn about and even replicate many of the experiments he presented. I used to cook hot dogs...
Something that has always been difficult for me is choosing a book of the Bible to study. It's true weather the study is part of a group or if it's for personal time with God. So, it got me to wondering how others settle on their Bible studies (please share your ways...
For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:4 I'm currently leading a study of 2 Corinthians. Last week, while...
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed ~ 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 If you had told the 13 year-old me that the 30-something me would be sitting in a 4-season room...