About once a week, I’m asked the same question. “Don’t you hate your job?” A variation on the theme is, “How can you stand your job?” Well, I admit there are some days...
I remember coming home from work and there was my son James, lying on his stomach in the living room. He was surrounded by crayons and pieces of paper. ...
I sat across from my mentor, eagerly awaiting her answer. ...
Call me old-fashioned, but I get nervous when my plumber talks about basketball. He seems more concerned about how Kobe Bryant did...
Flatfooted, she stands nearly six feet tall. She is a professional. Capable. Commanding. Her presence fills conference rooms of lawyers, accountants, and CEOs. From difficult contracts, or high...
Soul food scholar Adrian Miller discusses reconciliation and bridging our differences through food.
Worship Is More Than a Sunday Morning Event, it's a Way of Life! (Click to Listen) At this point, Colossians moves on...
The book of Psalms has a whole slew of references to God enabling David (or the psalmist) to accomplish marvelous things like crushing armies, scaling walls, slaying dragons . . . Okay, well, maybe...
In yesterday's reflection, we saw that "empty words" are those lacking truth. Such words promise life but lead to death. They appear to be wise but lead us in the path of foolishness. ...
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When I was a kid in the early 1960s, we often lost our TV network signal. The screen would suddenly go blank...
Christians on serving for real in the food services industry. Plus an overview of hospitality in Luke's gospel.
I like the stories of the ancient Greek pantheon of gods. The Greeks developed elaborate stories, created temples, paid homage, and sacrificed to these gods who were usually all too human with...
"Christians in public leadership would be wise to pursue their lives in ways different from the dominant culture."
One afternoon, my children and I sat together playing a card game on the floor in my son’s bedroom. I wish I could say my purpose that day was to create a warm...
On my mother’s side, I come from a long line of “creatives.” Which is a nice way of saying our family is a little whacked-out. ...
Right out of high school, I got a job at the gas station just down the road. I wanted to be a...
I have had many friends who struggled with faith because they saw their parents put on a show of Christianity but fail...
How should a believer leave his or her job? With grace and integrity, writes Diane Paddison, author of Work, Love, Pray: Practical...
After the loss of his father in a tragic accident, George Barron tells the story of how his mother worked to honor his father's memory by raising their four boys to be men...
