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finding wisdom in a foolish world

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What is one universal topic which influences the largest number of people but is most widely unknown or unrecognized? Grief. One of the great guarantees of life is that we will all lose. Life cannot truly be lived without loss. Humanity is well aware of the presence of grief in the traumatic losses of life. Nothing can compare to the loss of a child. Nothing can prepare us for the death of a parent. No oneContinue Reading...

Exhaustion is not unique to the pastorate. Most professions are wearisome in their own way. One of my greatest pet-peeves is hearing a pastor who whines about his job. If you don’t like it, don’t do it. The pastorate has far more upsides than downsides. (See: The Greatest Perk of the Pastorate) Yet there are days in which the pastorate is exhausting. There are seasons in which I find myself dragging. Preaching can become a chore. Making aContinue Reading...

In his book, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don’t Work and What to Do About It, Michael Gerber makes a distinction between working “in” your business and working “on” your business. His point is that for a business to grow, a leader must spend some time thinking about the big picture of how a company is operating. Too often, a small business owner is so busy with the day-to-day operation of the business that they cannot doContinue Reading...

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The headlines are full of stories: Facebook Cited in a Third of All Divorces Facebook Drives the Divorce Rate Couple Splits, Blames Facebook They make for nice headlines. Everyone loves someone to blame and to be able to accuse social media for the failings of a marriage is appealing. But it’s not true. (See: How I Predict Divorce Based on the Wedding Cake) Facebook has never caused a divorce. There is not a single relationshipContinue Reading...