Make the most of your time — Ephesians 5:16 A friend summarizes some of life’s big goals into four even bigger categories — Health Financial Spritual Career — As we wrap up this month of Review and Renewal, what are your top three in each of those? What’s the most important in each of those?…

Sing praise to God, who’s done it all!    Let the whole earth know what God has done!Raise the roof! Sing your hearts out, O Zion!    The Greatest lives among you: The Holy One of Israel! — Isaiah 12:5,6 So where and with whom are you singing today?

Bob Marley: “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” Our Bibles: “God gives his best, the sun to warm and the rain to nourish, to everyone.” (Matthew 5:45) Are you and I paying attention or just getting soggy?

A friend sent me this — Usain Bolt won 8 gold medals in 3 Olympics, and he only ran for less that 115 seconds on the track, earning 119 million dollars. That’s economy of effort. But for those two minutes, he trained for 20 years. That’s investment. Think long term. Patience pays. — A friend…

Men need to know it’s okay to — ask for help break down need support cry be vulnerable go to therapy not be okay talk about feelings — That’s from @MaisiesGhost. This is from Scripture: Jesus wept. (John 11:35) That’s not subtle. Let’s go back over that list. What would you add to it?

I want you to feel at home. If I try to describe what impact I want my words to have on those who read them, this is one way to express it: I want you to feel so welcomed to this place, so intertwined with all those you see around you, so comfortable in expressing…

“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart — sing anyway.” Emory Austin said that, and I thank Bailey Hostetler Toralez for pointing me there. Is this one of those “some days” for you? What song will you “sing anyway” today? And if today’s not one of those days, it’s a great day…

“Never make an important decision when you’re hungry, angry, lonely, or tired,” goes some good advice, “and those four conditions spell HALT.” Sunday evening after that Divisional loss to the Rams, Tom Brady faced questions — Reporters seemed to ask the same question over and over, “Are you coming back?” “I haven’t put a lot…

Shaun T (yes, that Shaun T, the exercise guy) nails it — It’s a New Year but it’s not a New You. It’s an Older You making New Choices to be a Better You. — Looking back over 2022’s First-Three-Weeks-Plus-A-Couple-of-Days, what “New Choices” have you made “to be a Better You” so far? And based…

Picking up precisely where we left off yesterday — “Surround yourself with people who love you, right where you are, but inspire you to get to where you want to be.” — Nakeia Homer — Or, as Proverbs 11:14 says, Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there…