Have you ever caught yourself looking at a billboard while you were driving and found yourself start to drift into the next lane as result? You didn’t mean to, it just happened because you were looking that direction while cruising down the road. As simple as it seems, our lives work very similarly. What you focus on draws you in. …
Come To The Quiet
At the first of the year our church family takes time to pause, fast, pray and listen. I am doing the same. I’m going off of social media, taking a break from the blog and taking more time to listen, pray, write and reflect. If it’s been a while since you’ve done the same I would invite you to join …
How Much Blessing Can You Handle?
I recently held a half-million dollars in my hands. No, it wasn’t mine. I interface with dozens of ministries and non-profits that care for people in various ways around the world. One of the ministries was given one of the most generous gifts they have ever received to aid them in caring for those to whom they minister. I happened …
Boundaries Break Down Barriers
Believe it or not, boundaries actually break down barriers. It may seem strange or even incorrect but a boundary and a barrier are not the same thing. The problem is we can too easily equate the two and therefore rob ourselves of being able to appreciate the important differences. You know that guy that talks too much at the office …
Relationships Aren’t Efficient
One of the many buzz words of society in the last 10 years has been ‘efficiency’. Increasingly, the population has been striving for getting more out of less. This is great in so many ways. I’m a bit of a minimalist in my approach to many things (except when it comes to ice cream… still working on that!). I like …
Stay Out Of It
I have been in Israel for the past week and today I visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem. It was my third time to go and the impact is the same every single time. There are no words for the emptiness and sorrow that it produces in you. I go back because I never want to forget. …