I prayed for my grandchildren this morning as is my custom.  I found myself focusing attention on my oldest – Khemberlyn.  This was not because she is my favorite because I love and cherish all my children in both generations.  I paid attention to her in that prayer because she just turned 5 and is about to enter public school.      Since birth our family has had almost exclusive access to her attention.  This access allowed us to enjoy ... Read More

No one told me that having grandchildren would bring me so much joy and happiness.  I suspected that I was going to love having “grands,” and I was sure that I’d be a good grandfather.  But I never thought I’d fall this hard.  I just flat out love my grands!  I’m blessed to see them almost everyday.  They all attend the daycare center of the church I pastor. At the end of the day, I look forward to hearing the noise of ... Read More

The Charles Dickens quote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” would seem to qualify as the motto of America over the past few years.  It has been the best of times because technological innovations have made life exciting.   It has opened up opportunities that just a few decades ago would have seemed unimaginable.   The Internet, the obvious crowning achievement of the technological revolution, has made millionaires out of ordinary people who probably would never had ... Read More

Family Business What happened to wisdom? It used to be that one of the real assets in being a part of a family was access to passed down wisdom. We remember what it was like as children to hear our fathers tell stories. We would be sitting at the dinner table or riding in the car and before you knew it the stories would flow. But there was a mission behind the stories. They were really dispensed wisdom ... Read More

One of the hardest realities for highly motivated people to accept is the notion that hard work is not always the best way to get things done. Conventional wisdom suggests that if you work hard and harder, great things will come to you. Too often though the hard workers are disillusioned because their hard work hasn't produced the rewards they had hoped to achieve. Good people proud of their work ethic have to wrestle with the perception that people who don't ... Read More