As my home church was launching a young disciple's study from Veggie Tales creator, Phil Vischer, I was reminded of his Vischer’s own tale. It’s one of brokenness, challenge, triumph, defeat, loss, sorrow, regret, and coming back. I thought more about it and concluded...
It’s good to take a break from time to time to consider your ways as you also consider your possible future. You see, the New Year is filled with a lot of advice from leaders, bloggers, journalists and all sorts of people. They’ll give you a lot of words about...
We need a pick me up every now and then. Few things have the power to provide it than the right songs at the right time. That's why, instead of offering one pick me up song for a #praylist, I'm concluding the Go from Low to Glow topic in our Year of...
It’s uncomfortable to admit we have flaws. But we do have them. You have flaws. I have flaws… we all do. In fact, it’s a fairly constant and obvious fact that everyone on our planet is broken in some way. Whether you believe the story of Adam and Eve or not – there is...
Today is Opening Day in a few Major League Baseball (MLB) cities and, within a few days, all teams will be in full swing (pun intended) on another great season of America's National Pastime. Just in case you didn't already know this about me, I am a life-long baseball...
Today, we are rounding out our discussion of Aligning With God's Will in our Year of Listening Up by pondering God's plans. Yesterday, I introduced you to Daniel Fusco's book, "Honestly" which releases April 1 (go order it now, seriously, you will thank me). In...
Sitting at a table on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, seated next to my wife and about three dozen banking industry peers, I could not help but consider the sense of injustice in my heart. My peers and I all were partners with the host company who provided us with a...
I think many of us can relate to feelings of being directionless, hopeless, aimless, and more or less empty. In our desperate hope, we reach out to God. We call on him and beg for mercy even though we are undeserving of it. We’ve strayed too far and too often from God...
In life, we sometimes have our expectations pleasantly go unmet or exceeded by the actual experience. For example, when you go to a concert to be entertained and learn about forgiveness; both of others – and more importantly – yourself. Such was the case when my wife...