Michael Hyatt had some great suggestions for career advancement that I thought I’d share here. The key is to over-deliver. Make the decision to over-deliver. Few good things happen by accident. You have to decide you are going to do something differently—or do it at a different level. Just making this decision will set things [...]
I heard the audio of this video below this morning, but just had a chance to watch it this afternoon. Anna Werner of CBS News was interviewing Barbara Garcia, a survivor of the massive tornado that hit Moore, OK yesterday. In the midst of the rubble that used to be Garcia’s home she described her [...]
I’ve been busy so unfortunately my personal blog has been neglected. I wanted to share with you some pictures from a day trip that my family and I made up to Ames, IA for Mother’s Day. If you have not been up to the Reiman Gardens at Iowa State University I’d encourage you to do [...]
Randy Alcorn shared a great quote from Jonathan Edwards that should help us keep our perspective while we trod on this earth. It becomes us to spend this life only as a journey toward heaven … to which we should subordinate all other concerns of life. Why should we labor for or set our hearts [...]
Ray Ortlund posted the excerpt below. I love it. “I simply argue that the cross should be raised again at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles but on a cross between [...]
Here is a good reminder from the late British pastor D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones that you can’t adequately explain the “good news” without sharing the “bad news.” You can’t truly share the Gospel without talking about sin. There is no true evangelism without the doctrine of sin, and without an understanding of what sin is. I [...]
At dinner last night Cheryl was talking about an article she was reading about the phrase, “God won’t give us more than we can handle.” That phrase is an absolute lie. You find this phrase no where in the Bible. We face more than we can handle all of the time! We can’t handle much [...]
Like many churches my church, Grace Fellowship, saw a number of new guests on Easter Sunday. We send out a letter within 24-48 hours and then they typically get a visitor with a goody bag as well. Our pastor, Shawn Barr, does a lot of that, but I and others have volunteered to help out. [...]
The LifeServe Bloodmobile made it to Pleasant Hill today so I signed up. It had been awhile. I ended up giving two units of red cells instead of a unit of whole blood because there is a greater need for that. After Morgan had to have blood transfusions during the course of his chemo I [...]
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