Posts tagged “Confidence”
You’ve got God’s phone number
Last year J. J. Watt, an NFL football player, made news when he gave out his phone number and invited people to connect with…
Not the same
Since 2013, I’ve worked as an elderly companion. While caring for my first client, I met a lively British lady who lived through WWII….
Good medicine
You are probably aware that the United States leads the world in consumption of antidepressant drugs—one in five adults gets prescription medication of one…
Honoring the slain
How would you describe Memorial Day? Somber? Contemplative? Celebratory? All three? Days like Memorial Day are important days where we take time to remember…
Our heroes inspire me
About this time every year, we set aside a day to honor American heroes who gave up their lives with bravery and selflessness. I…
Mission impossible
If I were Jonah, I would have run away from God’s call too. But for the opposite reason. I would have fled because the…
Spring in our steps with God
The groundhog never saw this one coming. Longest. Winter. Ever. I live in Wisconsin; we Midwesterners are used to being stuck inside over the…
Lord, give me patience with my healing
One of the great mysteries of life as a Christian is our lack of understanding of God’s divine timetable. Why does he do what…
Entitlement sickness
In our country the consumer is king. Or queen. Businesses fall over each other trying to give consumers what they want, or the herd…
Three quarantine insights
We’ve been “stuck at home/safer at home” for over a month now, and it feels a lot longer than that. And here are a…
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…
During corona, your pastor needs you
The other day, the pastors at our congregation wanted to make sure our church was making it through the new world that the coronavirus…