Have you ever run away from home? Wanted to? ...
Sometime in late 2005, after a fish pen, camp stove and snowmobile were added to his list, I discovered Kyle MacDonald. Kyle...
These little notes have been showing up a lot around the house lately, courtesy of my seven-year-old Girl Scout. ...
I have observed that there is an underlying narcissism in much of today’s workforce. A certain degree of vanity and self-absorption has corrupted our employment view. We go to work, not to...
Twelve Dead in Shooting at Army Base. ...
L.L. here with Random Acts of Poetry. Writing in the dark. "That's bad for your eyes, LL," somebody's going to say. And I'm not going to argue. Because the kind of in-the-dark writing...
Do you ever wonder what the perfect picture of leadership would look like? The Bible makes it clear from the beginning—leadership is really God’s idea. He ordains leaders to accomplish his will...
People draw into close community around a common vision or purpose. Start with Moses—certainly he was no orator or slick leader. He was a stuttering, reluctant 4H geek pushed out of early...
My tongue has no bone. ...
I was on a community prayer walk recently, and I noticed something funny. Not "ha ha" funny, but the kind of funny that really makes you think. What I noticed was a bunch...
The bite of fall is in the air.
Lucy Mae would never survive in the wild.
L.L. here with Random Acts of Poetry. Stuck on the parkway. That's where I was when I had two reactions. One, annoyance. Because after dropping the kids off, this was supposed to be...
Of all the human senses, perhaps the least valued is smell. Yet smells can evoke powerful scenes and emotions. Think of freshly baked bread, pipe tobacco, a familiar perfume, or freshly mowed...
Every night, after the tucking in, my youngest clings to my neck and asks that I stay with him for a little while. This mom would like nothing better than to snuggle in...
In his book God, Dreams, and Revelation, Morton Kelsey wonders what ever became of dreaming in the Christian tradition. The scriptures are filled with dreamers, from Joseph with the coat of many...
Volkswagen is encouraging us to incentivize goodness. Give people a reason to do the right thing. A coworker just sent me a...
I have been thinking a lot lately about excellence. Not just at work, but in every area of my life—as a Christian, husband, father, friend, church volunteer, and board member. I have to...
It was a busy morning, and I was packing the boys’ lunches--getting everything ready for school. ...
In my previous two articles, God's Prescription for Workaholics and Give God Your To-Do List, I discussed the damage that has been done by the frenetic busyness of our lives and suggested as an...
