THE ROAD TO TRANSFORMATION ALWAYS GOES THROUGH THE TUNNEL OF TRIALS One New Year's Day, I was watching college football games with another family, including an alum of one of the teams playing. His daughter was looking forward to attending the school that fall. Her team...
PURPOSELY-INTERMITTENT JOURNALING MIGHT BE THE KEY! The palest ink, it is said, is more reliable than the strongest memory. I suspect that is true, but I would have to speculate on that, because my memory would never qualify as “the strongest memory.” So, it is even...
GOD GETS THE SAME THING OUT OF YOUR LIFE THAT YOU DO Dallas Willard was fond of saying, “The thing God gets out of your life is the person you become. And, the thing you get out of your life is the person you become.” This seems...
THREE WAYS TO TURN HUMILITY INTO STRENGTH There is a difference between being weak and being humble. Weakness “gives in” because it doesn’t have the strength to resist. Humility “gives” because it believes that that is the surest way to bring about the highest good. Humility is...
INSIGHTS INTO WHY PEOPLE DISCRIMINATE AND HOW TO STOP Why do people discriminate against others? What is the motive? What do they hope to gain? If we understand the answers to those questions, it can help us stop discriminating against others, and enable us to understand and...
THE RACIAL GOLDEN RULE: IF WE WOULD NOT WANT TO BE DISCRIMINIATED AGAINST, WE SHOULD NOT DISCRIMINATE. As our nation reels from accumulating racial conflict, punctuated by the tragedy in Dallas last week, I found myself pondering the issue of racial discrimination and how Christians can...
JUST AS OUR NATION FOLLOWED BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES TO POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE, SO WE CAN FOLLOW BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES TO SPIRITUAL INDEPENDENCE Having just celebrated the 4th of July in the U.S., it is natural for us to reflect on the issue of freedom. Our Founding Fathers knew what it...
ONE OF THE GREAT CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY IS THAT WE OFTEN FAIL TO VALUE OTHERS WHO ARE DIFFERENT FROM US We live in a universe of stupefying diversity. And for clarification, I am going to be discussing that word, "diversity", from it's historical definition, not it's...
MENTAL RENEWAL TECHNIQUES WORK FOR CHRISTIANS AND NON-CHRISTIANS ALIKE. The key to personal transformation, we learn in Romans 12:2, is mental renewal: Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God...
CHRISTIANS MUST RESIST TAKING ON THE “COLOR” OF CULTURE AROUND US Chameleons are able to take on the color of the plants or other background in which they find themselves. They blend in so well that they often cannot be distinguished from their surroundings. Humans are the...