December 24, 2014

When eternity entered the temporal

Charles Spurgeon called it the “greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records.” That, of course, was the moment of Christ’s birth; that one moment in time when eternity entered the temporal. God became man. ...

September 26, 2014

Favorable conditions are overrated

Favorable conditions are overrated. Naturally, we want things to come to us easily. As babies we cried out for food and comfort; and we received them. As adults, we’ve only grown more sophisticated in the ways we pursue comfort. One of ...

August 6, 2014

Head-first or feet-first into your next venture?

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet. - Benjamin Franklin

When it comes to pursuing a new venture, you can make one of two errors (I’ve made both). You may either throw caution to the wind and dive in with both feet, blindly trusting everything will work out; or, you can sit on the ...

July 30, 2014

The one thing your dream requires of you

He would would build high must first dig deep. - JC Ryle

The dream God put within you demands something: a look inside. It won’t come alive until you do. And until you face some important questions: What am I willing to do without to make room for what is to ...

July 9, 2014

You can’t game imagination

Busy. Busy. Busy. It’s so easy to rush from one thing to the next. If you’re like me, you get a charge from the constant activity. You might even make a sport of it: How much can I squeeze ...

July 2, 2014

What bulldog tenacity looks like

Sometimes I get the feeling that the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that’s not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral. - Robert Orben

“When it rains, it pours.” So the idiom goes. One bad thing happens in my day and suddenly my mind is on high alert to other calamities. Suddenly they’re everywhere. It’s as if the world has turned against me. ...

June 18, 2014

Valley taught: The stuff that fuels your ascent

I grew up at the foothills of inspiration. Right outside my front-door loomed Colorado’s majestic Pikes Peak. One of the first things I noticed when I moved to Minnesota was that there were no mountains—lots of gorgeous lakes, but ...

June 13, 2014

The genesis of a productive day

'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant' - Robert Lewis Stevenson

Did you have a productive day? I ask myself that at the end of the day, and I ask my friends and family too. The answer I’m looking for is based on how much got done. Productivity means completion. ...

June 4, 2014

The price of anxiety

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. -- Seth Godin

There’s no shortage of things to be anxious about. We may have anxiety about our jobs, our bank account, our family, our health, the future of our country. Anxiety disorder affects nearly one in every seven adults, making it ...

May 21, 2014

Your wins can’t teach you anything

We all like a good win. But they can’t teach us anything. Sure, we may gain more confidence by them. They may also rally others to our cause. But we never really learn from them because a win ...

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