Today, we live in a world with people who need help. There are so many cries for help in the media and elsewhere that it is easy for people to become “compassion fatigued.” On one side, we have a small army of people who are serving others to the point of exhaustion. Conversely, we have peop…
Here’s a verse in Proverbs that has a great truth in it. It’s about joining the generations. Its address is Proverbs 20:29. “
This is an interesting time in world history. People feel used, violated and even deceived everywhere I go by those in leadership and authority in many areas of society. It reminds me of a story by comedian Jackie Mason. “My grandfather always said, ‘Don’t watch your money; watch your health…
Let’s start with this short story, which I used in a previous article but is worth considering again.
Here’s a poem by author Tim Hansel from his book “You Gotta Keep Dancing.” Years ago, I shared this poem with you but thought it beneficial to revisit it differently. I refer to this poem when my life trends toward being way too intense. It’s called “Did You Ever Doodle, Lord?”
Many of you may recognize the title of this article. It comes from a song titled “It Don’t Come Easy” that Ringo Starr and George Harrison (two of the Beatles) created years ago. The completed lyric is “Peace, remember peace is how we make it, here within your reach if you’re big enough to t…
Let’s start today with some humor. As the Bible says, “Laughter is good medicine.” So, my strategy is to get you laughing, then when your mouth is open, I put in the medicine. Read on, brave ones!
One of my challenges as a public speaker is people think I’m an expert. While I do have something to say in my area of expertise, I don’t have everything to say in my area of expertise.
Here’s a list of signs recently sent to me from all over America. I wonder what we’ll find.
This article has stories about a spider and a snake — first, the spider story.
Allow me to share with you a life-shaping story I discovered recently. I found the story while reading a book by Max Lucado titled “In the Eye of the Storm.”
As a golfer, I was impressed with a short story by Zig Ziglar. It’s called “Never Follow a Bad Shot with a Bad Decision.” This story is in Ziglar’s book, “Something Else to Smile About.” Here’s the story. In this story, the golfer is a man but could be, just as easily, a woman.
Here’s some self-wisdom I gleaned from the internet recently. It’s called, “Don’t Wash Your Hair in the Shower.”
As temperatures begin to creep upward and summer months roll closer, Phoenix Rescue Mission is kicking off its 11th annual, Code:Red Summer Heat Relief Campaign to save the lives of the city’s unhoused and at-risk individuals.
This week is Easter week. Christians call Easter “Resurrection Day.” Easter is about how Jesus was crucified, dead, buried and rose again after three days on the Jewish calendar. It was like, “Will the real Son of God please rise from the dead?” Jesus did, and it reset the world. What was go…
You may remember the story of Palm Sunday. At the height of His ministry, Jesus came into Jerusalem days before He would go to the cross. He rides into the city on the colt of a donkey as a Servant King, contrary to the day’s culture. Multitudes of people spread out their clothes and tree br…
I hear many people talking today about karma. Karma is when justice catches up to us and does to us that which we have done to others, either positively or negatively. Most times, people use this concept in a negative sense. “They reaped what they sowed.” “Karma got them.” To karma people, l…
Christianity began approximately 2,000 years ago. A new supernatural leader, God’s own Son, introduced a new way and means of living. A new ethnos of people, indwelt by God’s spirit, were transformed from the inside out. Since Christianity was a complete reformation of religion and culture a…
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