In 1999, NFL quarterback Kurt Warner came out of nowhere (Iowa actually!) to star in the NFL. Warner shared that when he first made it in the NFL he was watching television in a workout facility while running on a…
Mark Twain said, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on."
Twain was cynical. No question about it. But, lies do sometimes take on a life of their own. As does gossip. Proverbs 26:20 states, “For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.”…
Gossip Affects Your Spiritual Waistline
Gossip affects us in deep ways of which we are not even aware. For more on gossip, I recommend Matt Mitchell’s, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue. There for a while I was on a kick lately…
Facing Some “Orcs” in an Adventure You Didn’t Ask For? Persevere.
Maybe you’re facing some ugly circumstances in life? That’s how the adventure of life sometimes goes. Tolkien’s, Frodo and Sam dialogue near the end of The Two Towers: ‘I don’t like anything here at all,’ said Frodo, ‘step or stone,…
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing – Oscar Wilde
Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Two Options for Dealing With a Lion
Sluggards make excuses: “The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!”(Proverbs 26:13).” Leaders kill it. “And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great…
Who Are You?
Who are you? In asking that question, I do not mean, “What’s your name?” Rather, what is the nature of your heart? What motivates you and moves you forward in life? Before you answer too quickly, meditate on Proverbs 16:2.…
Birds of a Feather . . .
If all your friends are named “Beevis,” guess what your name is.
A Verse That Challenges Me Today
“Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will hmself call out and not be answered (Proverbs 22:13).”
If Your Boss is Attila the Hun
When I was a youth pastor, one of things I was determined to do was have a good relationship with the senior pastor of our church. To grow in that area, I memorized Proverbs 27:18,