What are your credentials? How do you introduce yourself to someone else? Mom, Dad, etc. Think about your favorite name to be called, in an endearing kind of way. Our world loves self-promotion. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but if it become the goal of life we are missing out. We can feel like…

Christmas is about sharing. We share gifts under the tree. Meals with others. We share what we want to receive and also what we gave. Kids especially will share about their “new toy” and sometimes all their disappointment in the item they did not get. The Christmas story is filled with messengers. Typically…

Seeing is believing. Or at least that is what we like to say. Or another phrase, “I’ll believe it when I see it!” Is this really true? Reality is that if we think we already have things figured out, or unwilling to actually “see” things differently, what happens doesn’t matter. This evening I submit…

Power is appealing. Those who have it don’t want to lose it. Those who don’t have it will try and get it. Power is also very subtle and sometimes we do not even know its influence on us until we stop and reflect. Relationships are powerful. We were created to live in community with others. The role of…

Advent is about waiting. This is a reminder I know but it is an important one. Waiting puts us in the “Biblical” story alongside many others. Exodus 23:20 (NIV) “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. Isaiah 40:3 (NIV) A voice…

Life is short. The sooner this powerful, yet simple, truth is grasped the greater the change we can have. Kids don’t stay kids for long. We do not like to wait. Does anyone really like to wait? I don’t at times. We talk about patience being a virtue but the reality is many of us do not want the virtue.…

Darkness is... How would you finish the sentence. Depressing, all encompassing, awful, is good to sleep in, etc. Darkness is all around us. There are many times when I think “this world is pretty dark”. I don’t say this expression because of good things happening but normally in the aftermath of horrific…

Chaos is all around us. No relationship ever truly goes as plan. It doesn’t matter how old you are or are not. Part of the reason for the messiness is because we cannot control the other person, at least not if the relationship is going to be healthy. Transformation flows outwards. We cannot have a transformation…

We are in a mental health epidemic. In fact, we have probably been in one for many many years and are just now starting to break out of the denial. Gen Z is lonely, anxious, depressed, stressed & disconnected. According to Springtide Research: 47% moderately to extremely depressed, 55% moderately or…