I had the honor of having lunch with former NFL Quarterback Tim Hiller last week. He is the author of an excellent new book called Strive: Life is Short. Pursue What Matters. As a college football fan, I first became aware of Tim about ten years ago when he was the Academic all-American quarterback for […]
Oneness
Think about your closest and best friends. The ones that love you for who you are and not what you do. They know everything about you, the good bad and ugly, yet they love you the same. The more you know someone, the more comfortable you are around them. The more you know and experience […]
Faithfulness
Thinking about the word “faithfulness.” A faithful person is trustworthy and reliable. Faithfulness is commitment to someone or something. Faithfulness refers to this quality of being faithful and loyal. A patriotic person is full of faithfulness to their country. Someone who works at one company for decades has faithfulness to that company. So to be […]
Childlike Faith
I was thinking recently about the term “childlike faith.” Unquestionably, faith is the essence of the Christian life. Faith through out the Bible and is presented as an absolute necessity. In fact, “without faith, it is impossible to please God” Hebrews 11:6. The entire chapter of Hebrews 11 is about faith and those who possessed […]
The Heart of the Matter: Love or Lust?
Sexual scandals continue to be in the headlines this year: Bill Cosby Jared Fogel Joshua Duggan Ashley Madison Dennis Hassert Charlie Sheen The issues of temptation, sex and lust are still not often talked about among Christians in church, and is certainly mostly ignored by many. Unfortunately, we […]
Mom Was Right: Go Outside! The Family Time Media Pledge
I read that: “Humans are quickly becoming an indoor species with a recent study concluding that American children between the ages of 8 and 18 currently spend more than four hours a day interacting with technology. As a result, there’s no longer time for nature; from 2006 to 2010, the percentage of young children regularly […]
In Order to Actually Love Others, We Needed to Be Loved First
Maybe you’ve seen this highway billboard or a picture of it on Social Media that says: That “Love thy Neighbor thing… I meant that. -God.” It is referring to the Book of Mark 12:28-31 in the Bible which includes: Love your neighbor as yourself. And maybe you’ve wondered: How is that even possible? Could anyone actually […]
Special Needs Children Have the Power to Teach us the Greatest Lessons We’ll Ever Learn
There’s an old saying that goes, “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” They have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and our sleep, to try our patience, and to elicit our most ferocious love. But children also have the power to teach us the greatest lessons we’ll ever learn.