Some more tentpegs popped this week. Last week’s unity meeting between the black and white churches of Christ in the metro Detroit area were a wonderful first step and there are signs that the churches here meant what they said and will follow up with mutual aid, events, and love. One opportunity to show our [...]
When Moses was tagged by God for the great mission of freeing the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery he wasn’t as keen about it as you might expect a Bible-type hero to be. He would have been primed, locked, loaded, and ready to rock when he was 40. Back then he was strong, active, and [...]
Want to have a happy life? Want to find joy even in the hard times? Here is the secret: Like what you’ve got. Want what you have. That’s it. Admittedly, this goes against culture’s tidal waves of commercials, enticements, and created needs, but if you can work with this, learn it, and live it, you [...]
You only own one thing: your power to decide. All your possessions can be taken from you by an army, an illness, or an attorney. Your health can disappear overnight. Your reputation can be trashed by your own behavior or by the entirely specious claims of another. But you can always decide how you will [...]
The old saw says that “if you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.” We’ve heard that a thousand times, but we act as if we haven’t. Case in point: what are you aiming for with the children in your family? In your church? Let this serve as a plea to develop congregational targets [...]