Love Is Not A Hole You Fall Into…
It’s a choice you make. And it’s not always an easy choice. Often, I just don’t feel like loving my wife, especially when she disagrees with me. Or when she’s failed to do things I’ve…
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.
Why Mentors Don’t Call
A few of the guys I’ve mentored have gotten their feelings hurt because I don’t call them. I could hide behind “I’m really busy” or “I’ve got a lot of mentees and not enough time…
Truth Telling
Isn’t it weird how we lie? How we spin stories to make them represent the people we wish we were instead of who we are? Or sit quietly and let an untruth be perpetuated when…
The Poor Will Always Be With You
The words of Jesus almost take away the urgency to help, don’t they? In the moment, Jesus was teaching his disciples the difference between the temporal and the eternal, between the practical and the divine….
Passive husband? . . . It’s time to move!
(This post is from Boyd Bailey, whose “Wisdom Hunters” daily devotional is read by over 100,000 people daily. To subscribe, click here. You can also follow him @WisdomHunters on Twitter.) “So Ahab went home, sullen…
Intentionality and the “Lyle” syndrome
Our son had the best dog that ever lapped water from the face of the earth. His name was Lyle, a black lab with more sense and sensitivity than you can imagine. You’re having a…
Selfish Interest
“The one human quality you can always depend on is selfish interest.” The first time I heard that I bristled. “Wow, what a nasty outlook on people. Are we really that bad?” Then the real…
Community – Yes … Accountability – No
I’m reading a cool book called So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore by Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman. Jake, the book’s main character, is an associate pastor in a church. He has…
Decision Making….thinking about it
“All decisions, in the moment, from the perspective of the decision maker, are between the greater of two goods or the lesser of two evils. There are no ‘right or wrong’ decisions.” When I heard…
The #1 reason a man needs a mentor – COURAGE
Most of the time, men know the right things to do. Some believe we’re born with an internal “compass” that points us toward right decisions. Call it conscience, call it intuition, call it whatever….more often…
