The other day I was having a conversation with my wife. I was listening to her, or so I thought, and had to look up at her and say, “I’m sorry could you repeat that?” You see, I was allowing myself to be distracted by my phone. And I had to admit and confess that…
About four weeks ago I reconnected with a good friend when I was down in Southern California. There are certain relationships for whatever reason where even though you rarely see that person, when you do, everything reconnects. It could be another six months or a year before we are together in his kitchen or at…
One of the Old Testament’s marvelous wisdom books contains a saying penned by King Solomon that proved a big encouragement to me this past week. Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 offers this inspired observation: “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his…
My wife far outpaces me as a world traveler. By the time she and I got married, she had already traveled multiple times throughout Europe and had visited at least ten countries. I’m six years older than her, and to date, I’ve only visited two: one was a short-term ministry trip to England to preach…
Today (now yesterday) I had a miniature High School reunion. An old friend I went to Junior High and High School with showed up on my Facebook feed and his posts were bold and distinctively Christian. I had not communicated with him since High School and actually by the time we both were in High…
