Spiritual Growth

Devotional-style readings to help you grow and develop wisdom as a spouse, parent, friend, leader, and most importantly, as a Jesus-follower.
My 12 MVV’s (Most Valuable Verses) My 12 MVV’s (Most Valuable Verses)
The Bible

My 12 MVV’s (Most Valuable Verses)

When I first started leading Radical Mentoring groups in 2001, I went through the verses I’d marked in my Bible and copied over those that guided my life. I labeled each one with a theme…

Feeling Good About Ourselves Feeling Good About Ourselves
Character

Feeling Good About Ourselves

Ok, here’s one to store in your head and your heart . . . We feel good about ourselves when we do the right thing. It just happens. When we push ourselves to fill out…

Connect with Her Feelings Connect with Her Feelings
Marriage

Connect with Her Feelings

Listening to your wife takes more than just hearing what she’s saying. One of the most helpless feelings in the world is for your wife to say “I just don’t feel like I have a…

Debt Perception Debt Perception
Grace

Debt Perception

As I’ve gotten older (42 now . . . but you know, age is just a number), I’ve begun to notice a few changes in my eyesight. I’ve had to add reading glasses of varying…

God’s Breath God’s Breath
Walking the Talk

God’s Breath

It’s Your breath in our lungs So we pour out our praise We pour out our praise It’s Your breath in our lungs So we pour out our praise to You only  You give life,…

Do You Have a Giving Goal? Do You Have a Giving Goal?
Stewardship

Do You Have a Giving Goal?

Over the first 33 years of my life, I probably gave less than $2,000 to the church and charity . . . total! But when God showed up in my life, I quickly realized that…

Stealing Her Thunder Stealing Her Thunder
Marriage

Stealing Her Thunder

Ever have someone finish your sentences for you? Irritating isn’t it? I have a friend who finishes my sentences. Every single one. He doesn’t do it consciously, but it’s distracting just the same. When I…

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Community

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

This summer there was a fair amount of attention on Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, a documentary on the life of Fred Rogers. Confession: unless Mr. Rogers removed his red cardigan to take on spies…

Radical Wisdom Radical Wisdom
Leadership

Radical Wisdom

If you’ve read this blog for any amount of time, you probably already know this, but . . . over the course of the sixty-five years I’ve been awake and conscious, I’ve been a collector…

Action vs. Analysis Action vs. Analysis
Leadership

Action vs. Analysis

Ok, here I go again, quoting my friend John Richie . . . “Action reveals options analysis will never find.”  I like this quote because it agrees with so many others woven into the fabric…