Are You Running Life on Empty?

‘Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?’ This was a popular ad campaign on a local Christian radio station I listened to in the 90’s. I got so sick and tired of the ‘sick and tired’ campaign that I stopped listening to that radio station.

Does it bother you, like it does me, that Christian’s lives don’t look different from others? It seems like we should have ‘more’ life…..less of the ‘sick and tired’ stuff!

“I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.”

John 10:10 [Read more…]

Cleaning up for Church – And Other Such Nonsense.

I remember a Sunday morning at church with my family several years ago when I was “caught” arguing with my daughter.

The worst part wasn’t the argument, but the person who saw it.

My harsh words finished, I looked up and my eyes met the eyes of one of the women I admire most at church, a national speaker at Christian conferences on family issues. She looked away quickly, embarrassed, by the scene she had just witnessed in my family. I can tell you, I was even more humiliated, wishing I had not fought with my daughter, and, wishing that she had not witnessed it.

I was probably more sick about being witnessed in this family “scene” than the argument itself. [Read more…]

Trials, Troubles and Tribulations. What Do You Do?

Imagine you are bright, scholarly, a top student in your high school, planning a possible college career at Yale. Then ‘it’ happens.

At a neighborhood ice hockey game, one of the players on the opposing team ‘accidentally’ swings a stick at you and hits you in the face, causing terrible damage. Did I mention that the player who hit you with the bat ends up becoming a mass murderer? And, after losing your top teeth and – experiencing excruciating pain, you find out your mother is dying of a chronic disease and requires constant care-giving. The usual, right? [Read more…]

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