Miscellaneous

Did you grow up with parents who, after instructing you to eat everything on your plate, reminded you there were starving children in China? We didn’t necessarily […]

One of the greatest rewards of having had the privilege of counseling people for decades is not only seeing broken lives fixed, but delivering the message — […]

The answer to the question above isn’t, “Whatever I want it to be.” You may have heard some people say their bodies are an “amusement park,” existing […]

Do you ever get the feeling you don’t measure up to the standard someone else has set? Kind of like this story shared by Allan Smith in […]

At times life can be incredibly complex, but it’s often more fulfilling and more productive the simpler we live it. But doesn’t it seem that we human […]

People who visit me as a clinical therapist haven’t shown up in my office because their troubles were short-lived and easy to overcome. For many of us, […]

So many Christians and church leaders who sincerely long to pour out their lives in service to Jesus Christ often exhaust or “burn” themselves out by always […]

As we entered into the presidential campaign season that just came to a conclusion, many professing Christians looked at the candidates and, driven by politics and fear, […]

Whether it’s the pastor’s hat or therapist’s hat I was wearing at the time, so many of the people I’ve worked with over the years are people […]