I gave myself a huge CHALLENGE this Easter and I’d like YOU to consider taking it on, too. Here’s the story to set the stage for a unique and powerful approach to the most significant day on any calendar on planet earth…    Holy Week has historical and life-changing significance because it is the story of Jesus beginning—and completing–his journey to the Cross on our behalf. That’s...

I did NOT wake up today thinking this specific line: “God is Good” even though I KNOW he is. Like millions of other Christians, I use that line “God is Good” occasionally to acknowledge something he has done. Of course that’s great. But I want to REGULARLY claim “God is Good” over and over again. Especially at the start of every day.    “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”...

I bought a YELLOW CHAIR yesterday after pledging for over 30 years to never, ever make that purchase. You are no doubt wondering right now how buying a yellow chair could ever rise to being worthy of a blog? Let me explain.    The chair is for our house. But that’s NOT the story here.    This story is about how early in my faith walk I allowed an ugly YELLOW CHAIR to control my...

Things didn’t go according to plan yesterday and I landed in a deep pool of pain. My initial reaction was, mistakenly, to summon my own horsepower to counter the situation. But then the RIGHT RESPONSE popped up on my mind’s screen: Recognize my INADEQUACY without God and go to him IMMEDIATELY.    OK…so far, so good. But then I wondered: WHAT EXACTLY SHOULD I DO AND THINK?    Since...

Most of our fears are tangible and easily described. You know…heights, disease, oceans, flying, failure, death…to name but a few. But the sneakiest and most dangerous fear of all—for me–is RARELY discussed.    It’s this people-pleasing trap—FEAR OF MAN (FOM).    I wrote about this subject last year, but I did not hit it hard enough. Today, I will because this fear is stalking...

Christians should strive to give and take no offense, right? Of course. After all, we are to love one another (John 13:35). But there will be times—HOPEFULLY VERY FEW–when we must risk offending someone with our words. Wounding words. Hurtful words.    How can a Christian speak hurtful words? That’s wrong, right?    For the answer to that, we look to Jesus. In his last days...

You’ve no doubt experienced the humiliation of catching others trading hurtful glances and whispering something negative about you or someone you love. Uncomfortable at minimum and crushing on the other end, that scenario prompts me to ponder a couple of questions: How much gossiping do you suppose is going on in heaven right now? If gossip is ARROGANT and FOOLISH, why do believers so easily succumb...

This just in from our global online tribe: I thought my faith was strong, but the world seems to be rooting for me to slip or fall down. Am I alone in feeling this?    NO, you are not alone. The world IS rooting for you, me, and all Christians to fall down. It has become SPORT for people to cheer when a holy man or woman falls. They ignore sins of the wicked and, at the same time, magnify...

The globe is painted in the excruciating color of physical PAIN. We cannot miss it splashing and crashing across our TV every day, especially now as the war unleashes its rage and carnage in Ukraine. We see it in various forms on the internet. We see it on the faces of people everywhere as we take our stroll through life. And maybe we see it (and feel it) on and in our own body. I know I do, every...

This message starts by confronting the truth that we would rather not face REALITY. That’s why we are prone to customize our own version of REALITY and feed that back to ourselves through our daily SELF TALK. Our walk with Jesus can be derailed if we don’t interrupt this cycle of deception by REFRAMING our narrative.    I have been FRAMING thoughts for my entire adult life as a CEO, as a...