Devotionals

One morning a friend of mine, an avid golfer, couldn’t “play through” because the guy ahead of him was busy talking on the phone.  My friend straightforwardly told him to go back to the office if he didn’t have time to golf.  The guy apologized, hung up and got to it.  They kept visiting and he turned out to be Carson Palmer, the three-time [...]

If you have you ever participated in a personality test then you may have been alarmed at the results, namely how predictable people are. That after answering a few simple questions or choosing a handful of words, people can be sorted into categories with uncanny accuracy is remarkable. Marketing firms spend billions of dollars annually to collect data so they can target individual groups [...]

What comes to mind when you think of “heroes”?  Do you think of Congressional Medal of Honor winners?  Do you imagine historical figures like George Washington or Harriet Tubman?  Perhaps your mind goes to the soldiers that stormed the beach on D-Day or the first responders to the 9/11 attack.  Why do you think your mind jumps to these kinds of examples?  What makes [...]

One of my grandsons is five years old and at times it appears that every muscle in his body is moving all at once.  He is not angry and he is not being rough.  He is neither out of control nor reckless, but his body seems to be manifesting enough energy to power a mid-sized electric vehicle.  He will simultaneously hop from one foot [...]

In ancient times and modern, it’s not unusual to permanently mark oneself to identify with a particular people or cause.  Today it’s common to see the omega symbol branded on the arm of an athlete or a Latin phrase tattooed on a military veteran.  To mark something is to set it apart and many choose to do just that.  Similarly, when God made a covenant with Abraham, [...]

Lucille Ball said, “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”  While Ms. Ball played a funny character on a popular TV show, there’s nothing amusing about that quote.  Unfortunately, that line of thinking seems to have become universal.  Robert Morley wrote, “To fall in love with yourself is the [...]