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Change Never Gets Old
Change can be tiresome. It can also be exciting. Change can stunt growth, and it can produce growth. Change can be abrupt, and it can be painfully delayed. Change can be helpful, and it can be hurtful....
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Know Your Motives
We can’t see others’ motives, but we certainly respond out of our assumptions of them. We’re certain we can tell if someone is angry, irritated, frustrated, indifferent, or excited. Of course, we get...
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Filter Your Assumptions
In order to connect accurately with people, we must filter our assumptions. Everything gets filtered through our backgrounds, personalities, and preferences. We try to make things fit in with what we...
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You Can Learn It!
Wise people can also listen and learn; even they can find good advice in these words. (Proverbs 1:5) There’s something we can learn in every situation from every person…even if it’s something we learn...
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Authenticity Isn’t Just About You
Have you ever given advice you have difficulty applying in your own life? Have you ever stretched the truth (a.k.a., lied) to make yourself look a little better or perhaps a little worse in order to...
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Approaching Issues with Grace
So many issues, so many choices in how to approach them. There are the biggies: gun control, abortion, same-sex marriage, immigration, and the list goes on. Then there are the ones that we don’t deal...
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Is Change a What or a Who?
How often do you demand, expect, or desire organizational change? Consider the following: What does the national government need to “get it right”? What are the top changes the church should make? What...
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Full Disclosure
Repentance. It’s a word we either don’t like to hear, don’t understand, or simply ignore. Repentance requires acknowledge of something being amiss, and we don’t necessarily like to admit we’re wrong....
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The Fence of Pride, Arrogance, and Ignorance
You might be the one to…step into the role, accept the position, complete the task. Yet you might not be the one. Why do you say yes or no to something? We build fences that keep us from walking the...
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Experiencing Preparation
I wanted to be intentional is trusting God to prepare me this year. Of course, he’s been faithful! It’s not that I doubted God’s preparation; I just wanted to be more intentional in yielding to it,...
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The Friendship Pace
Many years ago, I met one of my best friends while working with a publishing company out of state. We didn’t see each other often, but we kept in touch in creative ways – and continue to this day. We...
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