The Importance of Honor – Pandemic Stress #5 Gary Smalley was a Christian who knew a lot about stress in relationships. Why? Because his own marriage was failing. When he set out to discover why relationships like his suffered, he found it came down – at its root – to one thing: Honor . .… Read More »

Well . . . Is it True or Isn’t it? (Pandemic Stress #4) In my last blog, I shared part of my personal journey with stress and how, in failing to deal with it the right way, I did a lot of damage with my anger. This of course is not the only way to… Read More »

Find the Root, Find The Solution – (Pandemic Stress #3) Many years ago, my then pastor Lee Simmons made a statement I never forgot. He said that God doesn’t take anything away from us that He doesn’t give us something better in return. Originally applied in the area of temptation, I believe that this truth… Read More »

Casting our Burdens – (Pandemic Stress #2)   Stress Relief. Just the sound of that is good, isn’t it? We face stress all the time as human beings and now even more so in our current Covid-19 altered world. We all would love to relieve that stress, but most of us have never really learned… Read More »

Pandemic Stress – It’s Much More Than Possibly Getting Sick! – May 4th, 2020 – It’s no secret that during this pandemic we are living in a time of heightened stress. The potential seriousness of contracting the virus is stressful enough. Add to that the forced or voluntary stay at home guidelines that have altered… Read More »

No WALL-E for This Guy! -May 1, 2020 – If you’ve watched the 2008 animated film Wall-E, you might remember a cute futuristic story about a little robot who falls in love and helps to save a civilization that made the earth uninhabitable through environmental neglect. In the film, they were able to see the… Read More »

Food For Thought -April 22, 2020- A few years back, I was in a pastor’s group working through the book “The Deeper Life: Satisfying the 8 Vital Longings of Your Soul” with the author Daniel Henderson. In keeping with this principle of changing the way we see ourselves, one of the exercises in that book… Read More »

Is This . . . The End Times? – April 21, 2020 – Luke 21:10–19 (ESV) — 10 Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.… Read More »

  New Days, New Ways – April 18, 2020 I suspect all of you by now know about our dog Champ. He is quite the character, adding much delight and a perhaps a few less desirable moments into our lives like the time, half asleep, I decided to put him out the front door at… Read More »

Faith Planning – April 17, 2020 – My wife Kathleen is a planner, where as yours truly can sometimes fly by the seat of my pants. I can’t tell you how many times we have been on a trip somewhere and all of a sudden I have burst out with “Oh rats!! I forgot to… Read More »