Mark

  • The Right Boots for Your Vocation & Loving Your Neighbors

    The Right Boots for Your Vocation & Loving Your Neighbors

    When I first began my career as a credit union marketer, I told myself I would be there five years tops before moving onto bigger and better things. Having never been exposed to the credit union industry prior to that time, I thought it was just a “bank job” where I would be responsible…

  • Harmonizing the Gospels, Julia Mott Hodge 1935

    Harmonizing the Gospels, Julia Mott Hodge 1935

    I recently added a book to my collection that I am pretty geeked about. It is Notes on the Four Gospels Harmonized, produced in 1935 and was published by Julia Mott Hodge. Hodge was from one of the most prominent and earliest settling families in DeKalb County, Indiana. I got the chance to learn more…

  • Who Else Feels like a Barren Olive Tree?

    Who Else Feels like a Barren Olive Tree?

    Life has many prosperous seasons. And there are down seasons – no harvest – as my buddy, Scott Sprunger might say. In such times, people might cling to a desperate hope and remembrances of those more abundant times. They might be marked with regret as they spy upon the very top of a tree…