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...
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...
His father was a munitions developer of the 1830’s and Alfred joined him in the business at an early age. At the time, explosives were highly unstable because it was literally black gun powder ignited by a fuse. By the time he was an adult, he was fluent in five...
Tully Blanchard was born into a professional wrestling family. The son of wrestling promoter and star Joe Blanchard, Tully got involved in the family business early. He began by selling programs and refreshments. Later, he did some refereeing. The business led him to...
At age 14, Kirk Cameron began the role as Mike Seaver on the hit television show, Growing Pains. It sent him flying down a path of instant stardom. He was also pulled into the entertainment industry and enjoying “the good life” at pretty much every corner. Having not...
Throughout my professional career, I,ve gotten to meet many people both inside and outside my industry. Manny Ohonme is one of them and his story had many impacts on my own life. Manny has a marvelous and inspiring story. He didn’t own a pair of tennis shoes until age...
We were created to serve and glorify God. And God desires big dreams. In the course of that service, we're also being called to do something big. This series features the sharing of some stories designed to inspire us to pursue a higher call. Such dreams reach beyond...