This was from a friend quite some time ago, and continues to serve as an outstanding reminder —Thinking about you this last week. My prayers for Peace and Energy for you with your additional responsibilities continue. The work can be…

Ryan Holiday, the author of 15 books, including The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, Conspiracy and Stillness is the Key, calls himself a professional reader.” That’s really what authors are. A book is made…

With gratitude to real life friend Tammy Renee Harris for sourcing this from St. Augustine —  It has the hands to help others.  It has the feet to hurry to the poor and needy.  It has eyes to see misery…

What say you? — From one side of our Annual Conference to the other there are growing and thriving United Methodist Churches! We recently checked in with a few churches that have seen an increase in members and worship attendance…

“They were Methodists, a denomination my father referred to as ‘Baptists who could read.’” ~ Norman Maclean in the film version of A River Runs Through It —– So yeah no then how are we doing these days?

With gratitude to Dennis McDonald —- An atheist was seated next to a dusty old cowboy on an airplane and he turned to him and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation…

“Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.” (Paulo Coelho) I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. (Psalm 32:8) Pop Quiz: where you going?

Sent in my direction by several people, and too good not to share (highlights, as is usually the case here, are mine). Somebody remind me again of why we have Church Fights over such things — I was at one…

Stooping to look in, he saw the pieces of linen cloth lying there, but he didn’t go in. Simon Peter arrived after him, entered the tomb, observed the linen cloths lying there, and the kerchief used to cover his head…