One Word for A New Year One Word for A New Year
Character

One Word for A New Year

From mid-December to mid-January, the storylines begin changing. SportsCenter moves from the best plays of the past year to bold predictions for the upcoming year. Time Magazine names their Person of the Year, then shifts…

You Need to Stop Thinking You Need to Stop Thinking
Identity

You Need to Stop Thinking

A couple of weekends ago, I grabbed my boys and headed to the woods for some father-son skeet shooting. Full disclosure, our version of shooting skeet looked a lot more like shooting randomly into the…

A Call to Live A Call to Live
Death & Dying

A Call to Live

Radical Mentoring started in 2001 with one man who wanted to pour out what he’d learned about faith and life into the next generation. Last weekend, that man, Regi Campbell, went home to meet his…

The Unhurried Life The Unhurried Life
Priorities

The Unhurried Life

If you’ve been tracking new book releases in both the Christian and the secular space, you may have noticed a theme . . . a bevy of titles focusing on distraction and hurry. Our inability…

Is Your Marriage Worth the Risk? Is Your Marriage Worth the Risk?
Marriage

Is Your Marriage Worth the Risk?

We’ve all heard Newton’s Third Law, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” When I bounce a ball, the force of the ball on the ground causes a reaction, and the ball…

Lessons from the Rocket Man (Part 2) Lessons from the Rocket Man (Part 2)
Community

Lessons from the Rocket Man (Part 2)

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently saw Rocketman, the Elton John biopic, whose narrative centers around his major stint in rehab as a completely broken man. As I wrote about in Part…

Lessons from the Rocket Man (Part 1) Lessons from the Rocket Man (Part 1)
Parenting

Lessons from the Rocket Man (Part 1)

The opening scene of Rocketman, the movie chronicling Elton John’s life, takes place in a rehab facility at his lowest point. It flashes back to a young Elton, then still Reginald Dwight, waiting at the…

The Golden Buddha The Golden Buddha
Mentoring

The Golden Buddha

In a remote village in Thailand stood a 10-foot golden Buddha statue . . . the largest in the world. In the late 18th century, during the Burmese invasion of Thailand, the village monks covered…