“Dad, remember, nobody wants to stink at their job,” my son-in-law reminded me as we discussed how to urge those on our team to better performance. He is a principal at a school where he is responsible for a staff.… Continue reading

The little voices sang out the words in our school chapel – “Yeah, the Word of the Lord  holds true, we can trust Him!”  Isn’t that a great fact? This morning ‘round 2 am, many concerns arrived in my mind… Continue reading

There are some amazing experiences of ‘church’ in my memories.  Thousands of men standing in a stadium singing anthems to God led by a great band rank high on that list. For those of you who might remember, they were… Continue reading

Our society may not rigidly observe a class structure like that of England a century ago but we certainly divide along lines of ‘have’ and ‘have not.’   In any group we know if we’re ‘in’ or ‘out,’ if we fit… Continue reading

In my digital files I have two kinds of pictures- candid ones and posed frames.  In one you see an authentic representation of the situation. The faces are not reshaped with forced smiles. You can catch angst or big laughs… Continue reading

In 1969, Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” was a song for millions. That era saw America in turmoil; social unrest, war protests, and fear in the land. The Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King had been assassinated, the… Continue reading

As the gravity of his medical condition settled on the elderly man, his eyes filled with tears. He softly murmured, “That’s a death sentence.”  It was a moment that stabbed my own heart with pain. The rest of that story… Continue reading

John Wesley, the famed preacher of the 18th century, was born into poverty. At that time in England those who could not pay their debts were sent to debtor’s prison.  As a young boy, Wesley saw his pastor father taken… Continue reading

The feedback to me was spot on accurate – “You are task oriented!” I am internally wired to seek efficiency, to like results, and that sometimes shows us in ways that are not godly, and I am insensitive to the… Continue reading

My friends in the corporate world complain about the endless, nearly pointless, meetings that eat up large chunks of the work day. I have sat through some of those myself! Don’t you just love that guy who fills the agenda… Continue reading