With New Year’s resolutions still hanging in the air, it seems there have been a lot of sermons about budgeting and giving lately. I confess, I like to give, and am usually able to do it cheerfully. Then again, as much as I try to downsize my life, there never seems to be 10% of my income that I don’t need.
Yet whenever the offering plate is passed, it’s hard for me to think of giving without remembering something that happened to me a few years back in Africa. Continue reading…
In honor of the presidential Inauguration this past week and Daniel Day Lewis’s recent Oscar-worthy performance in Lincoln, today’s post is dedicated to our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
Second in glory perhaps only to first president George Washington, most Americans think of Lincoln as a noble caricature of a man, tall with a stovepipe hat, raised in a Kentucky log cabin. As the author of the Gettysburg address (hastily penned while on horseback), Lincoln was known for his simple eloquence. In fact, many common American sayings can be traced back to Lincoln: Continue reading…
In case you missed it, this is a fabulous Jan 18. article by C.J. Stephens on the Lance Armstrong scandal, “The Cost of Creating a False Narrative.”
Not to be missed.
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/nation/cost-creating-false-narrative
Manti Te’o, I’m looking at you.
Did you know that somewhere in the world of commercial Christianity run amuck there is a Joel O’Steen board game?
Yes indeed. And if you haven’t been playing it, you aren’t living your best life now, my friend.
How and when a Live Your Best Life Now board game came into my possession I don’t remember, but being in the game closet, it found itself among potential choices for game night this past weekend. Continue reading…
I don’t usually repost things, but with the recent media sensation surrounding Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron’s girlfriend during the BCS National Championship game (she was featured on television simply sitting in the stands and gained 100,000 new Twitter followers instantly), I think the comments of the week go not to Brent Musburger, but psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow in a recent column. Continue reading…
With the start of Season 3, it would be remiss not to have at least one post dedicated to one of my favorite TV shows, Downton Abbey.
For those of you who haven’t succumbed to Downton-mania, get with the tea and biscuits already. In upstairs-downstairs style, the show follows the Crawley family, led by Lord and Lady Grantham of England and their three daughters, through the 1910s and 1920s. Continue reading…
Growing up, there’s one thing I will always remember about my mom. She was the queen of rhetorical questions.
For example, she would say, “Do you want some squash?” and before you could react, there was a spoon of squash headed towards your plate. Continue reading…
I wrote awhile back about how the Enemy often uses small, innocent distractions to derail us from our spiritual journeys. I was thinking the other day about another often overlooked tactic – the victory of silence.
Sometimes it isn’t about persuading us to actively participate in certain things, but simply to let us to fall into the trap of silence when they happen. Continue reading…
I wrote earlier in the week about New Year’s resolutions and how I usually don’t make them. I did make one general resolution this year, however, and that is to be healthier – with both food and exercise.
But it turns out being healthy isn’t as simple as it used to be. It used to be pretty straightforward – exercise and cut back on fattening foods. Now, there is a whole niche of books offering advice and tips on how to stay and be healthy. Continue reading…
I’ve always secretly hated New Year’s resolutions. Why? Because asking an overachiever to come up with a New Year’s resolution list is sort of like asking NASA scientists to build a go-cart. Continue reading…