Let The Big Guy Play
I don’t know what his real name was, but our head coach told us to call him Coach Beef. He was our assistant coach. I was in the eighth grade, and I was playing football. I’ll never forget Coach Beef […]
Mike Tucker
What Do You NOT Want To Do Today?
Legendary football coach Tom Landry said, “The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don’t want to do, in order to achieve what they’ve always wanted to be.” It’s also said that successful people become […]
Children At Christmas
A few Christmases ago, my daughter and son-in-law decided to take a date night, which meant we had the distinct pleasure of having the grandchildren for an overnight stay. Being the doting grandparents we are, we decided to take them […]
Negative Prayer
While it is rare that this ever happens, there have been those who are so disquieted by something I preach or write that they come against me. I have been heckled, boycotted, protested against, and challenged in face-to-face confrontations. I’m […]
Mastering the Mountain
Sir Edmund Hillary was the first climber, along with his partner, Tenzing Norgay, to reach the top of Mount Everest. It happened on his third try. On Hillary’s second attempt, he not only failed to reach the summit, but his […]
I Am Not
According to spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, Jesus taught that the key to planetary transformation is for people to awaken to their identity as “Being.” In his book A New Earth, Tolle writes, “Jesus speaks of the innermost I am, the […]
Establishing A Strong Family
What nation has the weakest families? A few years ago I ran into some research that gave me the answer to my question. “The State of Our Unions “, an annual report put out by the National Marriage Project at […]
Slow Food
In 1989, Carlo Petrini started a movement known as “Slow Food”. The movement exists to counter the world’s ever-increasing dependence upon fast food. These preservative-laden, mass-produced meals are neither good for us, nor for our environment, argue Petrini and his […]
Building Bridges
Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in their 40 years of working together. It began with a small misunderstanding and grew into a major difference. Eventually, […]
Certainty
Some time ago, I posted something about God on Facebook. Within a few minutes a young pastor replied with a rather harsh rejection of my ideas. He was quite dismissive of my supposed wisdom and proceeded to tell me just […]
