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This just in from our GLOBAL ONLINE TRIBE: How do you keep your faith so focused day-after-day? This is a great question!    The focus part speaks to spiritual discipline. The heart and habits of a disciple.    The day-after-day part is also all about DISCIPLINE.    That’s the answer to the question–DISCIPLINE. But there […]

When I pulled my weary frame out of bed this morning to confront another day, I was greeted by a question that stirred my senses and got me riffing like Neil Young “rocking in a free world” at Staples Center. It was, at least for me, a totally new way of looking at the HAPPY/SAD

As this yawning Thursday scurries to catch up from losing a day to remember our veterans, Christians are waking up LONELY. In fact, the percentage of people who report being LONELY continues its inexorable march toward 50%. Fueled by COVID-19, new research says 44% of respondents claim to be LONELY “more than occasionally.” There is

I thought a lot yesterday about suffering and sacrifice. But that came late in the day when the screen of my mind’s cinema inched toward its fade to black. Earlier in the day, thoughts of it being “just another” Memorial Day were moving through my mind like Georgia fireflies dancing above a summer fire on

“Fake it ‘till you make it” (FIUYMI) is an English aphorism suggesting that if we “pretend” to feel or act a certain way, eventually the pretending will turn into reality. The term originated in 323 BC when Greek Philosopher Aristotle argued: “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a certain way.” The term was

“I want it now!” (IWIN) thinking has a vise-like hold on all of us. We know what we want, and we want it NOW. The best and most recent example of IWIN is our desperate pleas to shoo the pandemic out of town. We want the COVID-19 restrictions lifted NOW!    IWIN thinking has moved

We are living right now in a moment IDENTICAL to what the prophet Isaiah predicted. IDENTICAL to what John the Baptist experienced. And IDENTICAL to what countless other Christians have stared down for millennia. For context, let’s step back in time.    As prophesied in Isaiah 40:3-5, God sent John the Baptist to prepare the

The world is quickly running out of patience like a kid runs out of nickels on his first run to the mini-mart. Lock down and shut down have become trigger words that slice a piece off everyone. “REOPENING” is now a surreal soundtrack crackling in the background while we search for a switch to flip

Well before GPS cured our directional disease, captains of the sea used a SEXTON to “shoot the stars” at dawn and dusk to identify their navigational position. In almost every case, a course correction of some kind was needed.    Christians need to a sexton, too. But our sexton is God. And, yes, we need

A mentor and dear friend of mine halfway across the country just told me a story he calls “THE HARDEST DAY OF MY LIFE.” His powerful words and images stirred my emotions profoundly as I looked outside the window of my life and saw COVID-19 tanks rolling through and over everything everywhere. His story got