Mentors and Fathers…Two Different Things
Fathers can be mentors, but mentors aren’t necessarily fathers. Mentors choose to mentor, but once a man becomes a father, he is always the father. I believe that’s why God chose the ‘father – son’…
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.
Mentoring Kids
Maybe the most frequent question coming our way is about mentoring young guys…like teenagers, college kids and young singles. There’s even the question of adding ‘mentor’ to the ‘father’ role with our own kids. How…
You Can Never Not Lead
We are always leading. While a lot of what we do seems benign, there’s a motive behind everything we do. And people are always watching. Almost nothing we do is in complete secret. The question…
A Father With Few Regrets
For a while, the ‘next new thing’ was called the ‘rational method’ of decision-making. All the variables were quantified and processed to yield the path leading to the highest probability of success and the lowest…
Cloud vs. Server…Dependence vs. Independence
In technology circles, cloud computing is all the rage. Keep your music, contacts, apps, projects…everything… in the cloud. When it’s on your computer or server, it can be lost, stolen, corrupted, or get out of…
Love As A Verb…It’s Spelled S-E-R-V-E
Over the 200+ years of our country’s existence, men and women have been called upon to translate their love for America into service to America, fighting bad guys and giving their lives for our country…
The Myth of Multi-Tasking
I consider myself a pretty good multi-tasker. I always have fifteen or twenty things going. Always reading multiple books. Always thinking about not just the next thing to do, but several. My wife on the…
A New Way to Make a Big Decision
When most of us have a decision to make, there’s three steps… 1. If we think it through and settle on an option, we’re ready to pull the trigger. So long as we’re reasonably sure….
Marriage Problems Don’t Exist
They are personal problems, revealed in the ‘white-hot heat’ of marriage. If you take away the veil of ‘marriage problems’ and look deeper, you’ll see ‘action’-‘response’ at work, over and over. One person says or…
No Self-Esteem AND No Reputation?
What kind of leader is a man of no self-esteem? A man who knows what God thinks of him, who doesn’t worry about what others think…how does he lead? Several years back, R. Scott Rodin…
