I was blindsided when a reminder appeared online of a friend’s birthday. We’d met at work. We resonated. We became friends. We worked on projects together. We became better friends. We weathered storms with each other. We let situations get…

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…

“It’s dangerous when you have time to think,” says John Delony, “but it’s deadly when you don’t.” My dad loved to say things that have left me spouting off stuff like, “Use the good sense God gave you.” Numerous pulpiteers…

Online friend (although I’m pretty sure our paths crossed at some point) David Bone writes — Many of you have followed our East End UMC Rebuild effort after the tornado destroyed our building in 2020. The amount of FEMA funding…

Bill Trench is a colleague and online friend who’s about as Retired as some others of us. He recently wrote and shared this, and it’s simply too good not to share with you — Now there abide three great twentieth…

Jesus made a circuit of all the towns and villages. He taught in their meeting places, reported kingdom news, and healed their diseased bodies, healed their bruised and hurt lives. When he looked out over the crowds, his heart broke.…

Ministry is often made up of monotony and drudgery; there often is no glamour in it; it doesn’t stir one’s spirit or blood. Yup, picking up right where I left off yesterday. I’ll not quote famous preachers from days gone…

The first year in retirement is often the most difficult. But it also can set the stage for how you’ll fill the years ahead—both financially and psychologically. Stephen Kreider Yoder, 66, a longtime Wall Street Journal editor, joined his wife, Karen…

Dennis Kinlaw, an almost-life-long hero of mine, pointed many of us in the direction of the writer of these five lines — “The “romance” of a missionary is often made up of monotony and drudgery; there often is no glamour…

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…