Researchers have shown time and again when people understand the significance of their work they are way more productive than workers given a task with little or no sense of the value of their task. When asked what they are doing one person will say,...
Sometimes after we have discovered the sheer joy of salvation by grace we have a tendency to think the law, since it is not good for salvation, has become an unnecessary artifact of our past life. But, not so fast. The law is a glorious...
I stopped at a Burger King yesterday (They have a great vegeburger.) and couldn’t miss a really big mural on the wall of five young, very handsome, beautiful and multiracial people all laughing and smiling as they were enjoying their fries and burgers. Does something...
In my child development class tonight we were discussing that blank memoryless time in our lives between birth and approximately 36 months. We went around the room and each person shared their very first memory. Most of the 28 students’ first memory was somehow connected...
Just now we had a hair-raising experience. I mean one of those Yikes moments. We were just finishing an evening walk in the forest when a siren went off down in our little city. Almost instantly to our immediate right, a pack of coyotes, which...
It would be difficult to find a greater transformation than Paul’s. He was Jesus’ arch enemy and became Jesus’ greatest advocate. Despite the extremes of who he was and what he became, it is doubtful that the change was personality. Paul was Paul before and...
In Mary Poppins, George Banks, the children’s father loses his position at his bank and woefully sings the following, “A man has dreams of walking with giantsTo carve his niche in the edifice of timeBefore the mortar of his zealHas a chance to congealThe cup is...
For a weight loss commercial Oprah looks into the camera and says, “I love bread!” Well Oprah, I love Cheerios. Ever since I have been a really little guy, Cheerios have been my favorite. Not only did they nourish me, they were fun to play...
Sometimes I wish Emily Post was still alive. I have unanswered questions regarding being polite. I was at the supermarket and while going down aisle one I met a man coming toward me. We greeted. A few moments later, because we were going through the...
If you are going to lie you better know who you are lying to. They might very easily catch you in your perfidy. This weekend we stopped at a large nursery that was having a fall celebration with pumpkins, horses, cider doughnuts and other such...