Making Meatloaf
I write from home full time now, and Shawn, after a lifetime of homemaking, loves her three-day-a-week job across town. She has imparted some basic cooking skills to me such as the miracle of crock potting. Add crocked chicken to a couple of baked potatoes and a can of green beans (doctored with herbs and […]
The Great Omission
If you’ve invested time in the pew of an evangelical church you’ve heard sermons from the darling Bible passage of the group, Matthew 28:19-20, called the Great Commission. The King James Version (KJV) of Scripture offers 31,102 verses, but these two, along with their sister verse in Acts 1:8 are seemingly elevated above the other […]
We Forgot to Pray
When our schedules overload what practices of our faith are we most likely to set aside? I’ll confess there are mornings where my quiet time with God gets deleted. Perhaps I slept late —the blankets were at just the right temperature and the pillows resisted the weight of my head with just the right amount […]
Happy Prune Year
The bathroom scale displays “-23 OL” which I think means “one person at a time please.” I consumed less treats this holiday season than in the past. The December 2018 baking extravaganza which traditionally fosters heightened sugar consumption never happened due to pressing issues. Shawn found time to magically deliver a plethora of goodies anyway. […]
Salvaged Leadership Lessons from the ...
Books on leadership litter the bookstore aisles and flood the results pages of a web search. Why do we need yet another book on leadership, and what does Salvaged: Leadership Lessons from the Junkyard offer that we don’t already know? Roy Goble wrote this book from the trenches, practical experience gained over a lifetime of […]
The Puzzle of Christmas
Scattered through hundreds of years among the works of several prophets, God shared predictions concerning the arrival of His Son. Bible scholars list more than 300 Old Testament prophecies that were fulfilled in the life of Christ. God announced these in advance and orchestrated across time and space to make each one come to pass! […]