Interacting and working with people is a lot like mining for gold.
Gold miners must move tons of dirt to find a single ounce of gold. At the risk of overstating the obvious, they are never looking for the dirt. The gold is much more valuable.
Sometimes the good in people is hard to find [...]
What do these events have in common?
· A worldwide flood
· The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
· Wrestling with Jacob
· The burning bush
· The plagues of Egypt
· Bread from Heaven
· The march around Jericho
· The bronze serpent
· Balaam’s donkey
· Making the sun stand still
· The sign of the fleece
· Healing Naaman’s leprosy in the river
· Making [...]
A few years ago, Marcus Buckingham, SVP of The Gallup Organization, and Donald O. Clifton, past chairman of the same, published their book Now, Discover Your Strengths. Based on 25 years of research at Gallup, the premise of the book is that every person has a unique combination of strengths and [...]
He will not crush the weakest reed or put out a flickering candle.
He will bring justice to all who have been wronged. (Isaiah 42:3 NLT)
Thank goodness! I spend most of my time flickering and bending in the winds of my circumstances. I’m a poor witness to the faithfulness and trustworthiness of God. I put [...]
What’s worse than a traffic jam after a professional sporting event? A people jam after Loy Krathong!
A few weeks ago in Chiang Mai, my family joined thousands of Thais and thousands of visiting and resident farangs to celebrate a Buddhist holiday. We aren’t Buddhist, but this is a BIG holiday in Thailand, and we saw [...]
Talking with my two oldest about sex and why they need to wait until they are married. God gave me a word picture that has been helpful with both of them so far.
Sex is a gift. It’s one of the best gifts you can ever hope to receive, and God is excited for you to [...]
My pastor from a few churches back (Steve Holt of Mountain Springs Church in Colorado) used an illustration in one of his sermons, and it’s stuck with me.
He said that our hearts have dark rooms in them. The darkness comes from the sin in our lives. We know that it’s there, and we want to [...]
Walter Mischel and researchers at Stanford University conducted a series of experiments by tempting four-year-olds with marshmallows. They put a child in a room and placed a single marshmallow in front of him or her. Then, they told the child that he or she could have the marshmallow right then, but [...]
|
