Theme: Refresh My Soul Our soul is who we are - our will, thinking, decisions, personality, and emotions. We have a body, but who we are...

Theme: Reconciliation Division sells. Division makes for great ratings. Division engages our emotions. Division is addicting. And...

Theme: Family of Origin Hurt Sunday we talked about family of origin hurt. The hurt we experience from the family we were raised in. ...

Theme: Forgive Forgive. How many times? Wrong question. Forgive. What did the King do? Right question. You may be thinking, "What...

Theme: Joyless There will be a time or times in your journey with God when you hit the wall. What's that feel like? Not good. It's...

Theme: Discipline If not now, when? There is no better time to get back on track than today. Step one just may be accepting some...

Theme: Competence Competence means to do things well. Sunday my wife went through the Starbucks drive thru. She ordered a drink, but it...

Theme: Trustworthy The Oriental Institute Museum sits on the University of Chicago's campus in Hyde Park, Chicago. Inside it stands one...

Theme: Excellence Why does it seem like certain people just know how to obtain excellence? How can some set themselves apart from the...

Theme: Love People One of my structures is to read the verse of the day from Bible Gateway. There are so many days when the verse...

Theme: Structure Structure. Imagine a body without a skeleton. What would it be? Mush. Our skeleton is the structure that everything...

Theme: Compassion Loving people requires intentionality toward others, but also towards ourselves. What's that mean? Well, have you...

Theme: Let It Snow I had to do it this morning. I turned on my favorite Jewish jazz artist, Kenny G, and listened to his classic...

Theme: All In I have always loved flight so the Blue Angels have always fascinated me. They are the best our Nation has to offer. So...

Theme: Perspective Our family got away last week to Key West. Before we returned home, I sat out on a pier similar to this one. All by...

Theme: Stuffed Homer Simpson didn't believe bacon, ham, pork chops, and sausage could all come from the same "magical" animal. Well,...

Theme: The Culture Climate Culture is like a climate. It's there, but we don't really think about it. I mean we think about it when we...

Theme: Something to Hope For. Hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today. The dream of a better future is something...

Theme: Someone to Believe In. I am glad I got to believe in Santa because as you grow older you realize the wonder of belief is rare. As...

Theme: Someone to Love. I like being alone. Once I took a two day prayer retreat into the upper corn field of my dad's slaughter house...