The Sinking Boat
A lesson on awareness and focus We had traded in the balmy Florida heat for the crisp coolness of the North Carolina mountains, renting a...
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LEGACY BLOG
Don’t Blame Others for Your Failures—You Own Them
Corbin Bernsen’s Story (from Fathers Say by Joe Pellegrino and Joe Battaglia) My father wasn’t a saint, not by a long shot. He did a...
Would You Hire You?
A question every entrepreneur must answer Jim was a cigarette smoking, schlub of a guy. He doused himself in old man aftershave, slicked...
Retirement or Refirement. The Choice is Yours!
Setting fire for new vision In 1889, the modern concept of retirement was created by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck of Germany, nicknamed...
Discovered in the Darkness
Thirty years or so years ago, I was working in Northern New Jersey publishing a community newspaper, The Independent News. In my early...
It Could Be Worse!!
A study in contentment It had become a Christmas Eve tradition to pile my three kids in the car during the early part of the day to visit...
WELCOME INTRUDERS
“When all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives my brothers, don’t resent them as intruders but welcome them as friends!”...
PERSEVERANCE WINS THE RACE
“And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and...
LIVING FROM ACCEPTANCE RATHER THAN FOR ACCEPTANCE
“He came into the world He created, but the world didn’t recognize Him. He came to His own people, and even they rejected Him. But to all...
THE ETERNAL (BUT OFTEN UNNOTICED) BENEFIT OF PUSHING AGAINST THAT ROCK
“Therefore, we do not lose heart, though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and...
WHEN I HAD TO POP MY SON’S SANTA BUBBLE
“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things..” I Corinthians 13:11 I...
“MAKE ROOM FOR THE LIVING”
“Don’t long for ‘the good old days’ This is not wise.” King Solomon, Ecclesiastes 7:10 As we move into the holidays it is so easy for me...
THE REJECTED CHOSEN ONE HAS CHOSEN THE REJECTED!
“You are coming to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of God’s temple. He was rejected by people, but He was chosen by God for great...
TAKING JESUS AND LEAVING HIS CROSS
“Then he said to them all: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” Jesus...
HUMANITY I LOVE, IT’S JUST PEOPLE I CAN’T STAND!
How can people be so heartless? How can people be so cruel? Easy to be hard Easy to be cold. – Easy To Be Hard, Song by Three Dog Night...
ACQUIRING A “GOD’S EYE VIEW” OF TIME
"The Lord isn’t really slow about his promise, as some people think, No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be...
FROM CANCEL CULTURE TO CANCEL-ED CULTURE!
"Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind..” Romans 12:2 What is the “Cancel Culture” all about?...
WE ARE MORE RELEVANT THAN WE’VE BEEN BULLIED TO BELIEVE!
"You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and...
AS DID PETER, WE FORGET TO REMEMBER
“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat. But I have pleaded in prayer for you. Simon, that when you have repented...
THE TYRANNY OF THE SELF!
Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord...” The Apostle...
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