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Comparing ourselves to others is a dangerous trap.  The kind that seductively draws us in and then chomps down like a venus fly trap. I’ve compared myself to other people. There are two simple reasons for this: 1.) I want to feel bad for myself. 2.) I want to feel better about myself. Mostly #2 You know…

So back to Paul, who seemed to understand that he wasn’t the answer to his own problems. He used phrases like: “no confidence in the flesh”, “whatever was profit I now consider loss”, “I consider everything a loss”, “I have lost all things”, and “I consider them rubbish.” Paul is saying all the things that…

Here’s my next book: Go after God and you will find meaning. The end. We all know life is more complex than that. So the point is not to tell you something obvious that you already know. The point is to help each other as a fellow sojourners in this thing we call life. Some…

We human beings are constantly searching for something more. My wife calls this “greener grass syndrome.” However, we are not sure what it is we are looking for and consequently this is how we waste most of our time. Unfortunately for us, time equals life. George MacDonald, a man who greatly influenced C. S. Lewis,…

Think back to elementary school when the teacher would make you copy definitions out of the dictionary or glossary. Remember how frustrating it was when a single word would have something like eighteen definitions. The meaning of the word remained vague, that is until the teacher had mercy on you and would tell you to only…

Think about this story. It is about Joshua in the Old Testament of the Bible. He and the Israelites were about to cross the Jordon River to take possession of the land that God had promised them. The only reason they hadn’t done it yet was because: 1.) They couldn’t get over their past, and…

My sister-in-law is a rather amazing volleyball coach, but she wouldn’t tell you that.  In her four years as head volleyball coach at a local high school she has lost something like two regular season conference games.  She also gets the coolest name in volleyball, “Coach Kill”.  (For all you non-volleyball people, a “kill” is…

We often ask, “Where were you on 9/11?”  We all remember what was happening, how we felt, and what we were doing.  In moments of pure honesty we ask, “God, where were you?” This is the question many of us ask when something tragic happens.  We look at those people on the TV screen and…

I was about to hop on the shower when my room mate said to come check out the TV. Someone had flown into a trade tower. When I got out of the shower, the second tower had been hit. Unbelievable. We spent the next few days watching all of the events with aching hearts. I…

When you are living, you have to plan to do a lot of thing that you will never really do. For instance, I plan on buying lots of “monkey birds” for my daughters. My oldest doesn’t want them though, so now I only sing to my 9 month old, ” Hush little baby, don’t say…
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