Are you living like a guinea pig on a wheel?
All of us live as if we’re addicts, just in different ways. Let me give you an example. Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, offers this […]
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May
2014
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James Scott, Jr.
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May
2014
Sometimes, you shouldn’t sing …
Scrolling through my Facebook timeline, this post stopped me: “I want to sing but other patient is in deep sleep.” The person posting this is a young […]
18
May
2014
The secret is out. Do you want to know it?
If I were forced to place a wager on what the single most asked question in human history is, I’d bet it all on three letters comprising […]
17
May
2014
God does the heavy lifting …
My friend Mark complained all day. Even though he griped, I knew he really didn’t want to be anywhere else. I was moving into a different place, […]
16
May
2014
Keeping people OUT of your marriage …
Marriage is a covenant relationship between a man, a woman, and God. Those are the only three people in the marriage covenant, yet by the way some […]
15
May
2014
Is obedience important?
If you want God’s blessing on and in your life, you have to obey Him. Bil Keane, creator of the Family Circus cartoon strip, told of a […]
15
May
2014
BOOK REVIEW: A moving story worth reading …
I’ve said several times that everyone has a story, but not every story should become a book. Tricia Lott Williford has a story, and fortunately it has […]
14
May
2014
Setting the right goal …
The philosophy of the positive-thinking, motivational speaker crowd has so infiltrated the church we’ve adopted a lot of their platitudes and language. For example, a lot of […]
12
May
2014
Mix it up, because it all matters …
We can be quick to minimize our means of serving others. We’re fast to find the least we can do and then take credit for having done […]
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May
2014
How to do ministry better in the 21st century …
Some guys get loud — even downright rude — in trying to defend their common practice of looking to business leaders and business models to inform them […]