How To Deal With Someone Who Doesn’t Like You
A few weeks ago, John and I entered a building being guarded by the Secret Service. A presidential candidate was scheduled to be there the same day, so agents were vetting everyone who came on site. The perimeter of the building was surrounded by black SUV’s and a K9 unit was in place to detect […]
5 Bible Verses on Anxiety & Why You Need Them
Last fall I went to see the theater adaptation of C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters at the Tennessee Performing Art Center. The Christian classic is a series of thirty-one fictional letters written in the voice of the senior demon, Screwtape, as he instructs his nephew Wormwood, on how to derail the life of a […]
Quit Walking On Eggshells
There are some people who say “no” to just about everything. In his book, The Grace Awakening, Charles Swindoll describes people who have “no faces” and “yes faces.” I bet you know a few of each. A couple weeks ago I was delayed at the airport in Washington D.C. and the airline employee working at […]
2 Things I Pray For Every Day
One of the things I’ve learned over the last twenty years is I’m often not wise enough to know how to pray. Oh, you can bet that I have opinions about what I want and how I think things should go. It’s just that my track record for knowing what’s best is inconsistent. Sometimes I […]