The Marriage Roundabout
My counselor friend Kathy is one of the smartest people I know. Not just book smart, she’s street smart too. I was telling her how every married couple I know struggles with sex, money or…
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.
Leading Millennials
There’s a lot of days when I feel like a dinosaur, especially in a world increasingly populated with millennials. So when I saw there was a breakout sessions on leading millennials at last year’s Catalyst…
A Crucified Man Can Only Face Forward
Everybody has a past. Things we would do different if given the chance. Screw-ups that hurt ourselves and others. We bear the wounds of parents who didn’t love us well, teachers who vilified us, coaches…
Unclaimed Grace
When I was 23 years old, I got my first promotion with AT&T, was put over the business office in Greenville, South Carolina and given responsibility for managing Betty, Mary and Janie. A few months…
The Three Levels of Listening
Years ago, my company at the time engaged a consultant to teach us all to be better listeners. He taught us three levels of listening . . . attending, content, and feeling. I understand there are…
The Ultimate Question
Imagine for a moment you were faced with a life and death question. Imagine if your answer determined what your current and future life would be like? Well, there is such a question. It was…
The Element of Surprise
The element of surprise is powerful. Companies keep the details of a new product release a secret until the very last minute. The bad guys didn’t know of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideaway…
Fighting Fear
Just about everybody in the U.S. is scared right now. New leadership. A whole different mentality in the White House. Executive orders. Inflammatory rhetoric. Terrorists with machetes. Road rage. Crazy people with guns. No one…
Jesus’ Super Bowl Moment
With the roaring crowd ready to explode, there they stood . . . Tom Brady and Matt Ryan . . . about to step into the ultimate competition. With well over 100 million people watching…
Are Your Friends Like-hearted or Like-minded?
Friendship is a mystery with a lot of definitions. The average Facebook user has 338 ‘friends.’ Studies show that a person’s social circle is usually between 100 and 200 people. Other research estimates our inner…
