Regret

When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take it

What it Means to Take the Fork in the Road

Baseball had just lost one of its greatest personalities with the passing of Yogi Berra when I originally wrote this post in 2015. In addition to being a great player, manager, and war veteran, Berra was well-known for his Yogi-isms. Upon first hearing many, they...

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Our Toxic Relationship with Food and Wellness

4 Steps for Changing a Toxic Food and Wellness Relationship

I like food. I mean, I REALLY like food. Unless it's okra. Okra is gross. Seriously. It's not food. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld's nemesis, Newman, it’s a "vile weed" - though, to be fair, he said it of broccoli. But this really isn't a post about my dislike of...

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We can be sad about our regrets, or we can repent.

Is it Possible to Live (and Die) with No Regret?

I’d like to say I have no regret in life. But that would be a lie. I am human, so it’s inevitable that I will have wished I had done some things differently. For instance, I once thought it might be fun to throw marbles into a nest of ground bees. I immediately...

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Should we lament? What does lament even mean? Here are some thoughts, and a poem of Lament I wrote, called Desperate Faith.

Must We Lament? How Can We Not Lament?

It’s good to lament. Or maybe not. Who knows? Maybe we better back up and first ask “what does it mean to lament?” To answer that, let’s consult Got Questions, where they say: To lament is to express deep regret, grief, or sorrow. We can lament through words or...

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Edwards sought to attain much heavenly reward. This is shown in his 22nd resolution. One can only question if there will in fact be levels or degrees of heavenly reward. This post unpacks that and so much more.

Heavenly Reward and Our Greater Capacities for Happiness

We often speak of a heavenly reward. It's usually said in relation to the phrase “you can't take it with you.” The “it” in this case is all the stuff we acquire in life. Our homes, cars, clothes, gadgets, toys… even our money. This stuff is stuff we gather, collect,...

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The shame of the cross was endured by Christ. He became less than human so we may live. In light of this unmatchable love, I am not ashamed.

Why We Must Strive for a Healthy Perspective of Shame

I don’t know how it goes in other countries, but the U.S. culture certainly has an interesting relationship with the concept of shame. On the one hand, it seems that nobody has any shame. In addition, people are constantly thrusting themselves into attention seeking...

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In The Life Giving Leader, Tyler Reagin pleads the case for learning to lead from your unique God-given design to help facilitate a similar pursuit in the lives of others.

Book Review – The Life Giving Leader by Tyler Reagin

In The Life Giving Leader: Learning to Lead from Your Truest Self, Tyler Reagin pleads the case for learning to lead from your unique God-given design to help facilitate a similar pursuit in the lives of others. With forwards by Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel, the...

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