Posts tagged “Character”
Standing for the truth
My family recently watched the movie The Courier. It’s based on the true story of a British businessman who carried secrets from a spy…
Nobody knows
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” is an old African American spiritual song that was sung in the days of slavery way before its…
SLOPPY!
My light almost went out in first grade. For some reason, I never went to kindergarten. If you read Robert Fulghum’s poem “All I…
Counterculture
When you talk to baby boomers about their high school and college days, they may get a dreamy look in their eyes as they…
Sandcastles
“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on…
Arresting anger
If God said to me, “Jason, I will give you one chance to change the world. I will answer one prayer immediately. Make it…
Grumbling
With all the evil in the world, you might wonder why we would waste time focusing on a sin of talk. “Talk is cheap,”…
Walk with the wise
You’ve probably heard the saying that goes something like this: “You are the sum total of the five people you spend the most time…
Good leaders delegate
It’s terrible to have a leader who doesn’t do anything. But the reverse is worse—a leader who won’t let go of anything. Why do…
Ask a woman how it feels
I had no clue what it was like to be a woman until I asked some women. In my research for an upcoming sermon,…
It’s okay to build wealth
The economic stress of the last decade or two has taken a toll on us all. Everyone suffered losses in the last ten years….
Finding purpose in the pandemic
One reason that this global crisis is so challenging is that, for many of us, we have never experienced anything like it. Yes, we…