I’m not quite up to my usual energy levels after last week’s illness, but I know I promised I’d embark on a series about the “oil of gladness” mentioned in Psalm 45:7 and Isaiah 61:3, so I’ll try to muddle my way through the first post and get the ball rolling! One of the things [...]
I want to talk about something I discovered about myself a while back. After several months of mounting frustration and heartache over faltering projects and withering plans (this has been a rather difficult year in many ways), I was just about at my wits end when I realized something. I think God probably nudged me [...]
In thinking about what to post today, a couple of different things came to mind. I recently wrote up a lengthy post lambasting all the “evolutionary psychology” nonsense you hear about in popular science mags and so forth, but after a while the whole topic just became so boring to me I figured why bother [...]
You may not realize it, but I have a dad. Yes, indeed I do, and his name is Christopher (Chris for short). He’s a computer programmer by day and a writer by night. (Imagine that! As they say, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.) He’s started a very intriguing series on Grace’s blog [...]
There’s something that’s been irking me for a while about the cutting-edge of the charismatic movement, dubbed by some as the apostolic-prophetic movement, and I know what it is. Now don’t get me wrong…I dearly love many of these folks…Bill Johnson, Lance Wallnau, Patricia King, Jill Austin, to name but a few. I would never [...]
There’s been a lot of hoopla over this CBS News report on the rise of the Millennials in the workforce. I think some of it is just flat out nonsense, written to create controversial talking points and stir up media hype, but some of it warrants closer attention. I’m 24, going on 25 next month, [...]
This may sound crazy, but if you really want to be a successful leader, you need to set yourself up for failure. What??? Shouldn’t that be: set yourself up for success? No, because the fact is that there is no single leader ever who has not failed at one time or another. We all fail, [...]
Is there a price to pay for getting whatever you want and having whatever you need? There most certainly is, and it’s called boredom. And apparently boredom is one of the unfortunate outcomes of our overstuffed, overfed, consumerist Western lifestyle. Reading this article about the modern phenomena of boredom, I recall the stories I’ve heard [...]
