You are Responsible! Fact-Check Before You Share on Social Media

You are Responsible! Fact-Check Before You Share on Social Media

Dear Christian friends, Don’t fall for the stuff floating around social media that is deliberately created to make Christians look gullible. One example popped up yet again on Facebook as recently as December 2023. A particular meme has been making the rounds for at least the past ten years. A graphic of Santa kneeling by […]

Lord, Help Me Be Kind When I Don’t Want To!

Be kind! Especially when everything in you screams to react in anger, be kind. Ask yourself, what is lying behind that internal outrage?

Years ago, while helping to lead a children’s outreach with Youth With a Mission, I learned a children’s chorus based on Ephesians 4:31-32 (KJV). “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, […]

Procrastination Will Bite

rocrastination will bite you eventually. Deal with the barking dog today. Avoidance does not cause a problem to become smaller, it only makes it larger.

Procrastination. It’s making you wait. Yes, that’s a shameless rip-off of “Anticipation”, a Carly Simon classic from the late 60s or early 70s. I know procrastination will bite me if I am not careful. And yet, I still procrastinate. A considerable project lies before me. It’s going to be unbelievably tedious; it’s going to take […]