To know as a person
As I pulled out my phone to video my granddaughters whipping up batches of brightly colored slime, ever-precocious Elle launched into a pitch-perfect imitation of… Read More »To know as a person
As I pulled out my phone to video my granddaughters whipping up batches of brightly colored slime, ever-precocious Elle launched into a pitch-perfect imitation of… Read More »To know as a person
A half-decade or so ago, I swapped out three words for the usual (and useless) annual exercise in futility known as resolution making. No more… Read More »In lieu of New Years resolutions or three words for the year, a Psalm for 2018
I don’t know that he meant to, but organizational theorist Seth Godin has done it again. He’s provided yet another argument for encouraging God’s people… Read More »Rusty pleasures and heaven-stored treasures
We don’t need carefully crafted 3-point sermons to point us in the direction of right living. If as the adage suggests, brevity is the soul… Read More »Words of the way
A magazine from Temple University isn’t where I’d go for a sermon illustration if I were looking for one, although I’ve heard preachers reference more unusual… Read More »God in the brokenness
As a teen-ager, I glibly committed to letting my heart be broken by the things that break God’s. However, the older I get, the less… Read More »Crying for Omran
Back in the early 2000s when Growing Givers’ Hearts: Treating Fundraising as Ministry hit the bookshelves, Thom Jeavons and I were chided for under-selling the… Read More »With abundance, it’s de ja vu all over again
This month, the guide I use for daily scripture reading has me in the book of Exodus and this past week, in a lengthy section… Read More »Whatever your “this” is today, give love a try
For America’s tissue companies, the series finale of Parenthood was a bonanza as millions of fans, myself included, said a tearful good-bye to the Braverman… Read More »Family according to the Bravermans . . . and maybe the church