Imagine walking into your kitchen and finding a slimy green frog sitting on your counter. At minimum you’d quickly pick up the frog with a paper towel and get it out of your house. At worst you’d freak out and call for backup. Now imagine right after you got rid of that frog, you heard…

On a clear moonlit night you can walk outside, hold your thumb up to the moon and block it out of sight. Does that mean your thumb is physically bigger than the moon? Not even close. It just means from your perspective something small (thumb) has become bigger than something large (moon). In Numbers 13, twelve…

Everyday you make a choice between what is immediate and what is ultimate. How you spend your afternoon, what you do with your next paycheck, what you eat for dinner, all of those are immediate decisions. If you’re not careful, you will spend your life consumed merely with what’s immediate, our eyes never lifting up towards…

Today is my 15th wedding anniversary, and in honor of my beautiful (inside and out) wife Robin and her supernatural ability to put up with me for so long, I want to share a few lessons I’ve learned along the way. Please hear me: we don’t have it all figured out. We have our ups and…

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