Mar 10, 2016 | Calling, Career, Family, Leadership, Marriage, Productivity, Rest, Stress, Uncategorized, Work
Back in the 70’s, Cheech & Chong put together a shtick entitled: Sister Mary Elephant. The good sister was substitute teaching for Sister Rosetta Stone, and the class’s assignment that particular day… report on their summer vacation. The first young man (in a...
Dec 3, 2015 | character, Contentment, Depression, Fear, friendship, Relationships, Rest, Stress, Work
We live in a crazy world. If you watch the news, you’re bombarded with disturbing images and stories. Most news programs don’t lead with stories about the positive things in life. Human nature defaults to focusing on what’s wrong in life. As a result, our world...
Nov 20, 2015 | Calling, Career, character, Contentment, Family, Leadership, Marriage, Pastor's Kids, Productivity, Relationships, Rest, Stress, Work
Wouldn’t it be great if all a leader needed to know was 3 things? Wouldn’t their lives be simpler? The truth is, a leader needs to know more than 3 things—one reason more books on leadership exist than we’ll ever be able to read in our lifetime. I’ve lost count of the...
Nov 13, 2015 | Calling, Career, character, Depression, Family, Leadership, Relationships, Rest, Stress
Being a pastor has its great points. Being a pastor has its not-so-great points. Some people have a naïve view of pastors. They’re convinced since he or she is doing the Lord’s work, a pastor’s life is a charmed life… exempt from normal human pressures, and the wear...
Oct 1, 2015 | Calling, Career, character, Contentment, Family, friendship, Marriage, Productivity, Relationships, Rest, Stress, Uncategorized, Work
News broke this week that 11 million Volkswagen vehicles worldwide were fitted with the software designed to trick emissions testing equipment. A few months ago during the summer, NFL fans were inundated with Deflate-gate—a controversy over the illegal deflation of...
Sep 18, 2015 | Contentment, Depression, Family, Forgiveness, friendship, Relationships, Rest, Stress, Work
This past weekend Laura and I served a church in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. For those of you who are not Michiganders, our state’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas are connected by the 5-mile long Mackinac Bridge. If you don’t like bridges, you really wouldn’t like...
