Saturday Mornings

It is more easy for us to get tangled up in the timing of things than almost anything else.  But, in a context of infinity, the importance ...

The men that will change the colleges and seminaries...are the men that will spend the most time alone with God.  It takes time for the fire...

The older we get, the less we are able to avoid being who we really are . This can be discouraging or liberating...and, with some irony, s...

It is only when you start to pursue who you really are , not who you don't want to be, that you become someone.

So it's searchable: Our world is becoming more busy and noisy.  We are pushing silence out of our lives at a rate that suggest a f...

Decision makers get stuck in a memory loop and can only predict the future as a reflection of the past -- this dynamic is referred to as th...

Is there a greater gift we can give the world these days than the permission and ability to grieve ? We visited some dear friends this wee...

We are thankful that the pain we feel is not foreign to God. -- Nathan Baker

Far better to fail at being yourself than to succeed in imitating another. -- Herman Melville

We learn how to do something truly new only through doing it , then adjusting. -- Robert Fritz

The first fact to face is that our habits are largely invisible to us. That is, though we may know we need to eat or listen better, our rep...

Routine activity conditions the brain to follow old, familiar neural circuits. Over time, new input has a harder and harder time registeri...

All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects al...

Grace treats us like we already are what we fear we'll never become.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. -- Dante Alighieri

What would you do if you were locked in your body, your brain intact, but with no way to communicate? How do you survive emotionally when ...

Bitterness, resentment, and jealousy are like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. You are the only one who loses. Life...

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. -- Henry Fielding

There is nothing more developmental and illuminating than dealing with adversity . -- Jack Welch Even the business world recognizes th...

A friend of mine, Nate, is going through a hard time with his young family. He shared this video, as part of his journey during these da...

Let your light shine before others,    that they may see your good deeds   and glorify your Father in heaven. -- Matthew 5:16 What, ...

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight . -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This alone is nearly too cryptic to be of to...

Action is life. Many people are afraid to act for fear of failure so they work to create perfection to protect them. Action is synonymous...

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. -- Thomas Jefferson

Courage isn’t the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear . -- Ambrose Redmoon

It is out of our deepest and most personal darkness that our brightest light will shine. This is hard enough to believe for ourselves, es...

Pain and desire seem to be the two great catalysts for our openness to God. Sometimes it seems to take pain to reveal our true desire for...

God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this. --...

When I'm feeling pretty bad about myself, when the wounds of my heart cry out loud for healing , when shame attempts to suffocate me, o...

...fun for both our kids to be in this wedding of their mutual friends.

Not in his goals but in transitions is man great. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson We come to a point in our lives, where it seems that the only...

Here are some of my favorites from 2014: December: Not By A Thread Advent: Psalm 136 & Isaiah 55 The Weak UPS Kid: One Kid's ...

Dr. Siegel says, ”We’re not meant to live in isolation. Our connectedness creates the self.” So many leaders seem hapless about why pe...

When we consider things going on in our lives, or in the lives of those we love, it sometimes can feel like our hope is hanging by a...threa...

See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience , and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace . -- John Owen

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. -- William Law

For to us a child is born,     to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder,     and his name shall be called Won...

One of the better gifts we can give to each other is space. Space to stop running, performing.  Space to take a deep breath; space to be a...

Self-awareness drives self-management. If you’re tuned out, you can’t manage your internal world well. Self-awareness also drives empathy ....

Lori, is this what we're up to tonight?  ...gotta love the kids' reactions.

All of creation belongs together in the arms of its Creator. The final vision is that not only will all men and women recognize that they ar...

...didn't win, t hanks for the pic, Cliff! ...but enjoyed the day -- food, drinks, and each other.

If we’re left feeling empty, then we’re who God has in mind in this passage from Isaiah the prophet:      You who have no money        co...

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong. -- Gandhi

It is easy to be afraid of things we don't understand . For example, white cops of black men in stereotypical situations. Fear, una...

We need to experience our emotions in order to come to know deeper truths...for ourselves and for others. Emotions can be pathways to our h...

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are , and courage to see that they do not rema...

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. -- Brother David Steindl-R...

Vaccine protection against flu is never 100%. Even when the vaccine and virus are well matched, there can be a mix of flu strains in circula...

Our work brings people face to face with love. To us what matters is an individual . To get to love the person must come in close contact wi...

Here’s what I know to be true, nobody gives their best for a paycheck exchange. We like to pretend that business is just business and nic...

There’s a circuit in the emotional areas of the brain that’s involved in playfulness. It actually promotes plasticity of the brain. It eng...

Strategy is about folding in the future, not extrapolating the past. I don’t believe in best practices, I believe in next practices. -- ...

True peace is not merely the absence of tension , it is the presence of justice . -- Martin Luther King , Jr Some thoughts on injustic...

W.E.B. Du Bois said in 1897…“The man who won’t control his finances won’t control anything else,” and, “...nothing positive will ever occu...

It is your life experiences that open up your heart to have compassion for the most difficult challenges that people face along life’s jour...

We tend to look for things to validate our own experience. It could be what we like, or the way we go about business, articles that say t...

-- Bruce Kasanoff Is there something more important we can do for people than to listen to them?

Usually, when someone does something that hurts us, it has more to do with what is going on within that person than it has to do with you or...

So it's searchable: When you're looking for joy , you will always find it hiding in your gratitude . -- Ann Voskamp

It seems we must know a kind of poverty, in our spirit, in order to know God.  This may be true because it is one of the key ways we learn t...

Preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words. -- St. Francis of Assisi

Thanksgiving : Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;     his love endures forever. Cry out, “Save us, God our Savior;     gather us ...

Familiarity creates comfort. But comfort is often the enemy of improvement. When the fear of moving is the only thing holding you back...

Turn your doubt into curiosity. It's not that doubt is a problem, though it certainly can be inconvenient (but, so can the things tha...

Add to this that he was partly a young man of our time -- that is, honest by nature, demanding the truth, seeking it and believing in it, an...

The gospel is a doctrine that teaches a far higher matter than the wisdom, righteousness, and religion of the world; it teaches free forgive...

Pleasing God is not a means to our godliness, it is the fruit of our godliness.  For it is the fruit of trust. -- The Cure

Wow, Frosty is already here and well fed...and before Thanksgiving !

The only constant in life is change . -- Heraclitus

Customer feedback is great for telling you what you did wrong. It's terrible at telling you what you should do next. -- Phil Libin, CE...

Research seems to show it takes seven to twelve points of contact before the receiver of your message starts to pay attention .

In reality no one really cares how we look...except us.  So do this. Undress and stand in front of the mirror. (And don’t do the hip-turn...

I this pray for someone I love: God, before all is said and done, I pray that you would find him.  I pray that he would find you.  I know ...

I am proud of YOU. What goes through you head when you hear that?  If it is offered to someone else, is it something like, "Why doesn...

“They said this would be easy. But it’s not. Unexpected things happen that change everything. This is too hard for me.” Sometimes our...

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating wha...

No one matures in bitterness. No one gets free in isolation. No one heals rehashing the testimonies of bad religion. No one gets to love ...

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes . -- Pope John Pau...

At the end of the day this is a mystery, and God is not a candy machine. We have to live with that.   If people are insisting on a system,...

So I'm up unusually early this  Saturday morning .  I couldn't go back to sleep after a bit of an all-to-vivid dream.  It was about ...

We can't reach any higher if we can't deal with ordinary love... --  U2 ...click image  for video.

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value in...

Sometimes you need a soul quake to find the fault lines in your life. -- Ann Voskamp , A Holy Experience

To our brains , safety is largely based on familiarity . This works against us in many ways now. Most people fear or resist change , even...

It was a beautiful start to an even better Fall day in Winona Lake yesterday!

If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the l...

It could be the colder weather...or the fireplace fire last night...or all the shoes by our back-door from all the kids being home again w...

The key problem with making judgments is that they imply universality. Since a judgment is universal, it exists independently of who is sayi...