You won’t actually have a TV character in your church this Sunday, but you will probably have several people who identify with Rachel. Rachel has the gift of hyper-focus. She can pay attention to minute details through one of the five senses at a time. She might look at something and zoom into the microscopic […]
I’ve been reading a new book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard. In this book, the Heaths talk about the elements of change. We can try to change things from the outside in, starting with the environment, but lasting change won’t happen until we hook the heart. Once the heart is engaged, […]
People like to have control. In fact, living “in the zone” is about control – the ability to do what we love. Studies show that people who have control over their schedules experience a much higher sense of job satisfaction. We are designed to do what we love. We are happiest and most productive when […]
Today, welcome guest blogger, and one of the people I admire most: Caitlyn Martinez. If Jesus were to come down to earth again and explain to the leaders of a typical church that everything they hold as important (EG: coffee stands, good worship music, perfectly clean bathrooms) is worthless, nobody would believe Him. Jesus would […]
Bill Harken is one of the characters on the television show Alphas. No, I don’t think you are actually going to have someone with superpowers at your church, but there will definitely be some people in your church who understand and identify with Bill. Will you be able to help Bill know God, see himself […]
As I drove home today, it hit me. We are again in grief season. Just about a year ago, my father in law died. Two years ago, my mother in law died in November. Three years ago last June, my sister in law started the avalanche. Grief is hard. It is also inevitable. Grieving as […]
You know, we hear a lot of hoopla about “living the dream”. In fact, there was a time when we used to pay money to tour “Street of Dreams” houses. You know what those houses were? Big, giant catalogs. We were paying money to covet what other people had! The thing is that deep down […]
Do you ever wonder if God is really as connected with us as we’d like to think? There are seasons when we wonder if He forgot us (even while proclaiming loudly His faithfulness). We have whole parts of life when we only hear His voice on rare moments. Yet God is present and He does […]
Yesterday there was an article in the Wall Street Journal that caught my attention. It has a lot to teach us about how people experience change, and how we can help them through the process. For a quick overview of the main concept, check out this video: According to this study, people don’t notices differences […]
There are days and weeks where we feel like the world is dumping on us. Similar to New Orleans, we feel like storm after storm rages, and just when we pick ourselves up, another one hits. The thing that gets me is that throughout scripture, storms often accompany an encounter with God. When God spoke […]