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February 2020

February 27, 2020

How to Survive the Winter Gloom

Every year, I get a case of the winter glooms. Some years it is mild...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

Problems, Problems Everywhere

We are a problem-seeking people. From the time we are young, our parents tell us...

December 2019

December 04, 2019

The Aim of Our Prayers

There is a fine, but important, line between what we are praying for and who...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

The Opportunity of Gratitude

It is not that hard to be thankful. Sure things can be tough. Life is...

November 15, 2019

The Miraculous and The Mundane

An inescapable truth of New York living is the ads on the subway. If you...

November 01, 2019

What Will You Do With An Extra Hour?

We have a woman in our community group who is fond of lamenting, “We made...

October 2019

October 16, 2019

Life’s Not Fair…Thank God!

Every child at some point makes the claim that life is not fair. And if...

October 04, 2019

We Can Fix This

We humans have worked ourselves into a very specific narrative. When things are happening to...

September 2019

September 18, 2019

The Shape of the Past

Our pasts are as complicated as our present. Maybe even more. What we have been...

September 09, 2019

How to Make the Most Out of Traveling Together

There is nothing quite like traveling together. For most couples, it gives a focused time...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

The Difference Between Good and Bad Days

For the last three days, we’ve been in San Francisco with some friends. The first...

August 23, 2019

The Difference Between Acceptance and Approval

We live in a world of extremes. The middle ground is losing ground. Whether it...

August 16, 2019

What It Takes To Truly See Someone

We live in New York and walk by thousands of people every day. A group...

August 14, 2019

The Doing Gap

The Book of James talks about a man looking at his face in the mirror...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

The Two Kinds of Malaise (And How to Handle Both)

Malaise is a common occurrence in the life of every human. That feeling of being...

July 15, 2019

How to Destroy an Idol

By definition, an idol is something that is not true. Something to which we allow...

July 10, 2019

The Value of Endless Construction

A few days ago, my wife and I decided to take a walk across the...

July 01, 2019

The Humbling Power of Reality

Reality can be a cold hard truth. Whether we realize it or not, we are...

June 2019

June 28, 2019

Trial by Circumstance

Humans live in a constant state of fear. We are worried. Stressed. Scared. We have...

June 17, 2019

The Cult of More

Why do we want what we already have? I was on the subway the other...

June 07, 2019

How to Navigate Seasons of Transition

Every relationship (every person) goes through seasons of transition. We move. We become engaged, get...

May 2019

May 15, 2019

Abundance Redefined

Humans are made for abundance. But the question is “an abundance of what?” Life’s greatest...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

They Are Hurting Just As Much As You Are

One of the side-affects of my patterned thinking is that I start to think the world revolves...

April 22, 2019

In The Clefts

There is a story in the Bible where Moses asks to see God’s glory. The...

April 19, 2019

Why is Good Friday Good?

As a Christian who has spent most of my life in church, I’ve often wondered...

March 2019

March 22, 2019

The Stories We Chose to Tell

For a couple years, we have been working with Servant Leadership talking about the cross-section of character...

February 2019

February 15, 2019

The Flow Of Influence And The Power Of Perspective

One thing that fundamentally shapes how we think, feel, and believe is our perspective on...

January 2019

January 16, 2019

The Gap Between Expectations and Reality

Expectations are a tricky thing. On the one hand, it is healthy to expect certain...

November 2018

November 14, 2018

A Perspective Shift to Redefine Relationship

My wife and I were watching a soccer game recently. The home-team players were great....

November 02, 2018

Can a Change of Scenery Solve My Problems?

We’re in Paris this week and it is wonderful. Life has been busy and challenging....