Archive for September, 2009
Why I Spend $52 More On Gas
Sep 30th
I often stop at the same gas station each week to fill up on gas. The cost is generally about 10 cents more per gallon than another station further down the street. Why do I knowingly pay more for gas each week?
Yes. My gas buying habits result in me paying a whopping $52 more per [...]
3 Ways To Deal With Transitions
Sep 22nd
We all have transitions in our lives. Moving into a new place, changing jobs, finding a new grocery store… these are all important transitions. I’m sure there are many others, and you may even be going through one or more yourself. Here are a few tips to get through them with style and grace.
1. Choose [...]
How good is your fruit?
Sep 16th
They say you can tell everything about a tree by it’s fruit. Good fruit equals a good tree. Bad fruit… well, you might as well burn the tree to the ground. Alright, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but you get the idea.
And so it is with people. You can tell what a person’s about by their [...]
Send me your stories about church, faith, and beyond
Sep 15th
I’m writing a book. Your story could be in it.
I’m looking for stories about your personal experience with “faith”, “church”, and “Jesus”. I’m especially interested in those stories where what you thought Jesus was saying was not what the church was telling you (either in words or actions).
For example, in terms of “prophecy about the [...]
10 Ways to Change Your Life Today
Sep 14th
What you think about, you become. What you think about, your life becomes. What you are exposed to, you think about.
So, if you aren’t the person you’d like to be, or if your life isn’t the life you want, then how do you go about changing it? The first step is to change what you [...]
3 Ways President Obama Got It Right
Sep 10th
I watched the Presidential speech about health care reform last night and I wanted to take a moment to talk about what President Obama got right. This isn’t about politics, health care reform, or policy… this is about more than that.
1. Character Counts.
President Obama talked briefly about a letter he received from Ted Kennedy, a [...]
Where’s the Christ?
Sep 4th
I was always fascinated growing up in a Christian church that very few people actually talked about Jesus (the Christ). As I heard pastors, ministers, teachers, preachers, missionaries, and priests talk about their faith, it seemed that the majority of the conversation revolved around a sort of code of social and personal conduct. If you [...]
3 Ways To Get Schooled Without Getting Hurt
Sep 2nd
“To Get Schooled” is to learn something, generally the hard way. As in you got “schooled” in life. Often, we find ourselves at the learning end of life’s lessons, struggling to determine what happened. How did we get here? Why are we here? And what can we do about it?
Life is, indeed, the opportunity for [...]
