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October 2024

October 03, 2024

Nuggets of Wisdom – Fall 2024

Every quarter I like to share quotes that I have encountered in my reading and...

September 2024

September 20, 2024

Are You an Influencer?

Have you ever given much thought to how your life has influenced other people? That...

September 15, 2024

Keeping Score

Robert Roberts writes about a fourth-grade class in which the teacher introduced a game called...

September 06, 2024

Thoughts On Money & Wealth – Part 2

Last week’s blog was somewhat of a commentary on Jesus’ parable of the rich fool....

August 2024

August 30, 2024

Thoughts On Money & Wealth – Part 1

After my previous blog on the “super-rich,” I thought I would continue with additional thoughts...

August 23, 2024

The Danger of Being “Super-Rich”

I recently read an interesting book titled, Fables of Fortune. The subtitle caught my attention...

August 16, 2024

Understanding the Nature of God

When you think of God, his nature and what he is really like, what comes...

August 01, 2024

A Source of Unhappiness

Daniel Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and is most famous for his international...

July 2024

July 26, 2024

Climbing the Right Mountain

Over the last twenty-five years I have been speaking and teaching a great deal on...

July 18, 2024

A Significant Life (Part 2)

In last week’s blog, we looked at man’s greatest psychological need—specifically, finding a life of...

June 2024

June 27, 2024

Nuggets of Wisdom – Summer 2024

Every quarter I like to share quotes that I have encountered in my reading and...

June 20, 2024

Safe Passage – Part 3

I wrote the book, Safe Passage: Thinking Clearly about Life & Death, back in 2006....

June 13, 2024

Safe Passage: Part II

I wrote the book, Safe Passage: Thinking Clearly about Life & Death, back in 2006....

June 07, 2024

Safe Passage: Part 1

I wrote the book, Safe Passage: Thinking Clearly about Life & Death, back in 2006....

May 2024

May 31, 2024

Modern Happiness

John Mark Comer says that most ethicists have historically defined happiness as a kind of...

May 23, 2024

The Power of Grace

Often I encounter powerful stories that I feel are worth sharing with you the reader....

May 17, 2024

April 2024

April 26, 2024

What Really Matters

Today’s blog comes from an essay I wrote over twenty years ago. I found it...

April 18, 2024

Learning to Love

I have always been intrigued by C.S. Lewis’s words describing how you can change your...

April 11, 2024

The Power of the Acorn

I recently gave a presentation titled, “Does the Resurrection Really matter?” I proceeded to ask...

March 2024

March 28, 2024

Comprehending the Love of God

Ten years ago, I was persuaded to write a weekly blog and this past Christmas...

March 15, 2024

The Adolescent Crisis

I have become a big fan of Jonathan Haidt after reading his book, The Happiness...

March 08, 2024

Nuggets of Wisdom – Spring 2024

Every quarter I like to share quotes that I have encountered in my reading and...

February 2024

February 02, 2024

Who Is In Control of My Life?

Ten years ago, I was persuaded to write a weekly blog and this past Christmas...

January 2024

January 05, 2024

The Foundation of our Thinking

Ten years ago I was persuaded to write a weekly blog and this past Christmas...

December 2023

December 14, 2023

Blog #500

Ten years ago, I was persuaded by a few people to write a weekly blog....

December 07, 2023

Willful Blindness

When people establish a belief, they should do so because they are utterly convinced that...

November 2023

November 24, 2023

Insight Into Freedom

Author Paul David Tripp offers some profound words on the issue of freedom. He says:...

November 16, 2023

Remembering God

It is amazing how many times in the Old Testament you read this about God’s...