➡️I love Christmas!  I love the lights, the decorations, the music, the gifts –  I love everything about Christmas.  But my favorite thing about Christmas is just being with my family. One of my favorite memories as a child growing up was on Christmas Eve when my mom would light the candles and my dad…

➡️I have 5 fun tips about how you can better manage your time – according to the Bible.  But even if you don’t believe the Bible, follow the science.  Ask your smart phone about the benefits of  managing your time, and it will bring up article after article about how it makes you healthier, it…

➡️I love it when the calendar flips to a new year, and I get to embrace the tradition of setting New Year’s resolutions. I don’t know about you guys, but that is totally me. I look at my schedule, my budget, my business, my health, my family.  A majority people make New Year’s resolutions, but…

➡️Studies show that about 70% of Americans believe in heaven. When most people think about heaven, they probably think of clouds, angels, peace and harps.   When I was a child I would always imagine heaven being something like the Wizard of Oz – there’s singing and dancing, bright colors, lots of happy people, and…

➡️According to pewresearch.org, 90% of Americans believe in God, 71% believe in heaven, but only 61% believe in an actual hell.  Most people have a hard time accepting the fact that such a good God, who they believe in, would ever create such a bad place like Hell.   However, just because someone doesn’t believe…

➡️Growing up, I was an extreme rule keeper because I was always afraid of letting God down. For some reason, I had this picture of God being like Moses in the old movie, “The 10 Commandments”.   Charleston Heston was always serious, a little irritated, he never smiled, and he always seemed to be in…

➡️According to the Bible, God frequently communicated with people through dreams, like Joseph’s prophetic dreams in Genesis, and King Solomon‘s dream where he asks God for wisdom in I Kings 3.  God also spoke to others in dreams, like Abimelech in Genesis 20, Jacob in Genesis 28, Laban in Genesis 31, Pharoah, who wasn’t even…

➡️There is no hurt like church hurt, because churches are supposed to be a safe place – and church leaders should be safe people.  We have this concept that everyone who’s a part of a church should be acting like Jesus, but just because someone goes to church does not mean that they even know…

➡️One of my best friends was extremely involved in their church, a great church – active in the community, growing, exciting. They had joined the team, loved it and they were serving all the time. The church was their community, their support group, their family.  After several years of serving, and great memories, one of…

➡️Have you ever been at a party, or maybe a classroom setting, or some special event and yet, in the middle of other people, you still felt all alone?  It’s weird how you can be in a crowd and still feel like you’re on the outside looking in.  Years ago, I traveled with a band…