I know each of you are desiring to have an even more intimate relationship with Jesus than you are currently experiencing. I know I am! I am so grateful for the intimacy that I am currently walking in, but just like my relationship with my wife Bonnie, I desire more. One of the main reasons [...]
You are contagious! How many times have you ever come up to someone and their first words to you are, “You better stay away from me, I have this terrible cold and I wouldn’t want you to get it!” And you obliged by keeping your distance, not needing to be told a second time. [...]
I am sitting here drinking coffee in the Bahney House Café. My son and I meet here every Monday morning at 6:00 AM for coffee. (Pic Attached) When I walked into this building for the first time in the summer of 2010, it was a hotel that had been closed down by the town officials [...]
Access denied! How often have you had those words come up on your screen when you tried to log in, view, or access a particular site, program, or data source. What! Why won’t it let me in? Doesn’t’ it know who I am? Obviously no, it doesn’t or you would have been granted access. I [...]
I recently read the book “Crucial Conversations - Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High” by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny. Like me, I am sure there have been many times in your life where you have had crucial conversations that you have not handled as best as you would have liked. Here is [...]
Who cares anyway? I read a report a number of weeks ago in USA Today that said 40,000 people in America take their lives every year. 40,000?.... A 747, in a three class configuration, carries 416 passengers so that is like 96 airplanes going down every year. Many of those 40,000 individuals have been telling [...]
Max Depree said "In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are." I think many times we are focusing on the wrong things or even the wrong time frame. We have a tendency to focus on the present and how we are doing [...]
I was thinking about all of you this morning and this verse came to mind. Eph 2:10 For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (NLT) Man, let that sink in for a minute or two. You [...]
Much of society is on an information binge. The electronic media has bombarded us with emails, texts, tweets, Facebook posts, pictures, blogs, writings, plus a plethora of information for us to consume. The good news is there is information available on just about anything at our fingertips. The bad news is that unless we focus, [...]
Inequities. They are all around us. While all of us have opportunities, they vary greatly from individual to individual. The child of the wealthy business owner has many different opportunities than the child of a one who works for the same business. Each of the children has untold opportunities before them, but there are certainly [...]