For more than twenty years now, as part of my everyday life, I’ve had the privilege of serving as a professional life coach for Christian doctors, while also being one of the pastors of a church I love. I love my church. And oddly enough, I love Christian doctors. There’s an interesting connection between those…
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I notice things that cause me to pause and think. For example, the other day I saw a weight loss program being advertised on the web. Two pictures in the ad sort of jumped out at me. The pictures were labeled: Before and After. The ‘Before’ picture was…
Our apple trees are loaded this year. I’m looking forward to the cool Autumn days when it will be time to pick those apples and enjoy the annual ritual at our house of my wife making apple butter, and apple sauce. I’ve written in other places about a memory I have about our very first…
My wife and I are in that stage or phase of life where reducing the ‘stuff’ we’ve accumulated over our lives and ministry seems like a good thing to do. Our storage areas are filled with boxes of memorabilia we’ve gathered over the years. We spent several hours the other day, sorting through treasures that…
I don’t know anyone who has a fondness for a dry, ‘stale’ anything. A stale joke isn’t funny. For me, a stale cup of coffee isn’t even drinkable. Stale air isn’t fit to be breathed. And any way you slice it, stale bread is, well, stale. A stale marriage may be ‘on its last leg.’…
My wife and I used to frequent a tiny little restaurant in our town that made great omelets. The walls of that restaurant were peppered with sage and salient sayings written on small cards—diversions that occupy the customers until the food arrived. There must be dozens of those little sayings throughout the restaurant, almost everywhere…
It’s been a few years ago, now, that my wife and I joined some friends of ours in attending a children’s theater production about the sinking of the Titanic. Each person who entered the theater that night received a separate playbill with an actual name printed on it, which corresponded to a real person who…
I went to the doctor the other day for a check-up. I’m not sick, but I don’t want to get sick, either. And one of the best ways to avoid a serious illness that might be sneaking up on me is getting a reasonably regular examination from my trusted doctor. He had a few things…
When I was a little boy, I heard a story I’ve never forgotten; a story I thought at the time was hilarious, but now I see as a somewhat poignant picture of an ‘all-too-often-lived-out-faith.’ It’s a tale of two words, you might say: ‘Fortunately’ and ‘Unfortunately.’ It seems that a man decided to do something…
My wife bought me a metal detector a couple of years ago for my birthday. I told her I wanted one, and she being the great wife that she is, went to a local store and got me a really cool looking model. I could hardly wait to put the batteries in it, and give…