How Your Imagination Works For or Against You

How Your Imagination Works For or Against You As I type this message, my calendar says that the first day of spring is just two weeks away.  …And also, there are gigantic snowflakes falling outside my window.  So please humor me while I share a few lines from my...

How to Find Peace When You’re in the Storm

Finding Peace When You’re in the Storm I’m in a storm right now.  Of all the troubling circumstances I’ve experienced in life, the ones that are sure to bring out a fight against reality involve my kids.  I storm Heaven with my prayers, release...

Are Passion & Purpose Anti-Christian?

Are Passion and Purpose Anti-Christian? If you know me at all, you know that one thing that gets me fired up is people making blanket statements declaring something “evil” that God meant for good. This week, I saw two different sources proclaim that...

Finding Serenity

Finding Serenity I’m not a big fan of memorized prayers. They feel unnatural to me. After all, there’s no one on this planet who I convey the same memorized, rehearsed message to on a regular basis! I’m pretty sure if I had the same scripted conversation...

Who you hang with matters!

It Matters Who You Hang With! Humans were created for fellowship…with God and each other. There’s been lots of buzz about “finding your tribe” in the past several years, because we all know who we hang with matters!  There’s a high...

Thoughts Create Feelings

Thoughts Create Feelings This is the third of a series introducing the concepts of the model (see bottom left) that I use to coach clients.  Today we’re stepping into the second line: “Thoughts”.  So far, we’ve learned how to separate your...