The New York Times published an article in December called Questions Couples Should Ask (Or Wish They Had) Before Marrying. If you’d like to take a little romance out of your Valentine’s Day, you ought to look it over.
Actually, this is a great list of the type of questions I ask (or need to [...]

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I went to the National Missionary Convention in Knoxville a few years ago, and while I was wandering around the displays, I heard someone whisper “That’s Dennis Mullen”. I briefly entertained delusions of my own celebrity, but quickly realized I must know this woman who recognized me. It turns out that she was [...]

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Here’s an article of diet tips from Kyle Pott (his real name?) who lost 50 pounds in three months and has kept it off for more than a year.  Like a lot of good advice, it’s nothing you haven’t heard before, but the thing that makes it attractive to me is the realistic approach.  Potts [...]

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I recently discovered Carmine Gallo, a Business Week writer who focuses on the craft of public speaking and giving presentations. I’ve been slowly working through his articles, trying to learn as much as I can to apply to my own preaching and teaching. Gallo is practical and entertaining. Check him out before [...]

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Each day the Internet Movie Database posts the names and photos of four celebrities who were “born today”. I don’t know when I started doing this, but I always click through that list hoping that today all the stars listed will be older than me. There aren’t many such days anymore. Yesterday [...]

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Every once in awhile, NPR’s “This I Believe” series features a profound and moving piece. This morning I heard this one, I Always Have a Choice, on the way in to work. Catherine Royce was a dancer and an artist before she was stricken with ALS. Her perspective is worth hearing.

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I met a good friend for lunch today. As we finished up, he asked me what I had planned for the afternoon. Although I was a little embarrassed about it, I told him that I was taking a few hours off to go see a movie. I was embarrassed to tell a church [...]

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When I was young, adults I cared about lied to me. These adults weren’t my enemies. They were friends, teachers, church folks, relatives, people who cared.
The lie they told me: “You can be anything you want to be.”
It wasn’t true. I wanted to play shortstop for the Cleveland Indians, or quarterback [...]

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A. W. Tozer said that every Christian must learn to bear one of two pains; either the pain of double-mindedness, or the pain of the crucified self. The pain of double-mindedness is the pain of a tooth-ache that lasts a lifetime. The pain is always there, filling you with resentment, anger, and envy. [...]

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“Human beings are explanation generators.”

So says Daniel Taylor in his book The Myth of Certainty (p. 22). He says that we generate explanations about what life means to give us security, and that (and this is the interesting and scary part) all explanations for life are self-verifying. That means that they all seem [...]

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