"Dad, I want to take the training wheels off my bike," my daughter said with a bit of hopeful fear.I wasn't sure what to think. Was she ready? I didn't want her to...
If there is anything I loathe more than moving, it's the list of installations and service calls required to rewire my busy...
What counts as success is clear: the stock market goes up, the kids get on the honor role, and we get credit for the fine work we are doing. There is no excuse...
Our two border collies often remind me of the connection between satisfying work and energizing joy. Although our pets are past their prime, they behave like pups when the opportunity arises to do...
A Pittsburgh business executive wakes up one Monday morning with a problem. He needs God’s help, but it isn’t Sunday. As a faithful church member, he suddenly realizes that he’s relegated God to.....
I have a cynical twist in my heart. A student accidentally revealed it to me a few years ago, just as Christmas...
Sometimes you hear pastors and church leaders saying that leadership in the Church is harder than in the business world. You deal with volunteers, they say, and you can't hire anyone you want. You...
We live in such a "hurry-up" society. Many of us have a hard time waiting for the microwave oven to finish our food. We get angry waiting in lines, furious when the mail...
“The wise are cautious and turn away from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is careless.” Proverbs 14:16 The Code of the Samurai stated that every decision must be made within the space...
If you could interview your own mother and find out what it was like for her to become a parent, what do you think she would say? Well, the blogger behind Spaghettipie has...
It was the first snow of the season at Tanya Dennis' house. Her kids were thrilled, as you might expect, but all she could see was the dirty windows through which they were...
Stuff in the Basement - Writer & educator J. Schaap writes about life and the things that matter to him. ...
You will spend over 100,000 hours of your life working. This is more than anything else you'll do except sleep. What is the meaning or purpose of our working? Do we work because...
It doesn't take much. All I need is to hear somebody remind me to have a good attitude, and my bad attitude...
Pause for a moment and recall the last time you were very intentional about making a favorable first impression. Were you interviewing...
Most Christians know the Ten Commandments. Some of us could recite them in our sleep. But often, we forget the refrain.Throughout the Ten Commandments in Leviticus 19:11-18, God repeats a key...
With a line of other cars, we were driving the coastal road when the stream of traffic came to a stop. The...
"For I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know...
It Takes a Church - Musings about Christian Community, the mission of Christ and the life God intended for all of us. By Tod Bolsinger, pastor, author, and irregular blogger. ...
In his book, Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon says, "The difficulty in any journey is not in its beginning, but in its continuing." As followers of Christ, we are on a journey—one that...
