5 Ways to Build Your Integrity
While it can be hard to spot in the early stages, there are at least five signs that show you lack integrity. It’s one thing to know you might lack it in certain areas, but the question is how do you…
Personal Growth
5 Signs You Lack Integrity
Integrity is something you desire, but how do you know if you have it? And what exactly is it anyway? Sometimes it’s easiest to think about something out of its immediate context. When something is well built, we say…
The Silence Test
Want to know how you’re really doing? Sit in silence. Sit silently for at least 10 minutes – even an hour if you can handle it. More and more, I’m learning that silence reveals what’s really happening inside me. Whenever…
Two Secrets to Keeping New Year's Resolutions
I love New Year’s because I love progress. Over the weekend I wrote a full page list of goals I want to accomplish in 2012, personally and in ministry. What scared me is that a few of my goals look…
Solitude v. Isolation
More so than any other point in my life, I enjoy being alone. But there’s a world of difference between solitude and isolation. It can be easy to miss the difference, but the difference night and day. Solitude is good.…
What I Learned from My Social Media Fast
So I feel like I emerged from a cave yesterday when I came out of a five day social media fast. How do I feel? Like the rest of the world gets around by sports car and I got handed…
Happy Father's Day (aka How to Get Fired on Mother's Day)
If a lot of us preachers treated Mother’s Day the way we treat Father’s Day, we’d get fired. On Father’s Day, we often say “Dads, time to get your act together…step up…accept responsibility…be a leader…we expect it, and you’re not…
Wasting Your Time
So I'm all for grace, and I need more in my life, but today the Bible rocked my socks once again. I was reading the Sermon on the Mount, and understood once again why people reacted both positively and negatively…
Is This What God is Up to In Your Life?
Everyone once in a while when I read the Bible stuff pops up that I just plain never noticed before. It’s been there for thousands of years. I know I’ve read it before. It’s just that I missed it. Earlier…