“Just give me some grace.” This statement yelled with anger and frustration to a pastor friend of mine.  (For you Office fans – think...

Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was...

Welcome the word planted deep inside you—the very word that is able to save you.[1] I have been fascinated with the word Legacy this week....

Do you ever feel like you are watching your life go by as if it is a movie and you are glued to the screen but helpless to change the...

Cue the original Star Trek t.v. Series score and voice of Captain Kirk: “Death:  the final fear.  Going to places we all must go.” Every...

(Every hero has a hydra part 7/8 of series) Let me tell you the tale of how great redemption comes from great desperation. In other...

The fear of not being provided for (not having enough) I am going to just talk to you this week. This season leading up to Easter has...

This week, we are switching things up a bit. We are going to do a podcast instead of a written blog post. My wife, Sarabeth, was very...

Through a series of conversations this week, I have come to a reality check moment:  I speak/write in abstractions or concepts instead of...

When I am asked, “What are my three favorite movies of all time?” I have one that usually does not appear on many people’s list: Dead...

If being wrong is the worst thing that happens to you today, is it really that bad of a day? Being wrong about trivial facts: who is the...

“You are better than your record says you are.” This was my constant refrain to my basketball team this year: We went 2-6 during the...

There once was a man who could see. And when I say he could see, I mean he really saw people for who they were. This was a gift and a...

During my recent bout with a sickness that had me on my back in and in bed for a few days, I got a chance to catch up on some of my...

I sit here on a February day in Kentucky where the temperature will get close to 70 today. I sit in a Starbucks in my hometown, which is...

Yes, cue the music. Bonnie Tyler from the Footloose soundtrack… Now that we have our background music, I will share with you all. Last...

Two disclaimers right from the beginning: Any wisdom that shows up in this post belongs to William Bridges who wrote many books on...

I get to spend a good amount of time with wise, wise folks as I travel and work with many different types of leadership teams. This...

I blogged last week that I planted my bonsai trees on January 1 and it could take them up to three years to be what we typically think of...