encouragement

  • No More Self-Defeat – You Belong on the Field

    No More Self-Defeat – You Belong on the Field

    One of the recurring themes throughout my life is the concept of self-defeat. I share exactly how this manifested throughout my whole life in Listen Up, Kids, so I won’t belabor the point here. I bring it up mostly to introduce the next topic in our Year of Listening Up series. You Belong on the…

  • Poem: That Rock by Chad Gramling

    Poem: That Rock by Chad Gramling

    One of my favorite verses of any book in the Bible is Isaiah 44:8 which reminds us that our one true source of stability and solid ground is our God the Father. He is the one stronghold to which we all cling. In 2007, I did a blog that I called “No Other Rock” in…

  • The Power of a Personal Anthem

    The Power of a Personal Anthem

    affirmation: 1. the act of affirming or the state of being affirmed; 2. a statement of the existence or truth of something; assertion Turning back the clock just a bit here. The year was 2010. I was in the midst of one of my hopeless seasons. I’m serious. I was in a rut for…