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• Cheer, Be Amazed… You GOTTA See This!!!

  In Happy, Personal Opinion & Commentary, SeriousFaith, Video / 10 March 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Get the kids, turn it up, watch this… you can’t help but smile, cheer, be amazed and clap. These girls are UNBELIEVABLE!!!! PS: WHAT ARE YOUR QUESTIONS FOR ME? Ask here. Want to book me for preaching, speaking or business consulting? Go here. If you are blessed by what I write, would you be so kind to share this post with others by clicking the SHARE+ button below?  You never know who might need these exact words in their life today. To give a gift of support, click here.

   

• You’ve Got 23,458 Days to To Live

  In Bible Answers, Fulfilled, Happy, SeriousFaith / 26 October 2012 / 0 comments

  

  A reader asks: I was wondering, are our days numbered? Is the number of days we live predetermined? I know God knows when and how we die but do we have control over how long we live? My answer: Thousands of years ago, a dude named Job asked God that very same question: Job 7:1 Is there not an APPOINTED TIME to man upon the earth? There is no verse in Scripture that says “The day you are born, God picks a certain number of days for your life, and when you get to that day, it’s asta la vista baby”.  So in that sense, no, the length of your life is not predetermined nor are there any quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Bible. On [...]

   

• My Spouse Doesn’t Want Me Snooping on His Cheating

  In Christian Advice, Faithful, Happy, Marriage, Opinion, SeriousFaith / 4 October 2012 / 8 comments

  

  A reader asks: I have been married for three years to a man I dated off and on for almost 15 years. We have children ages two, four and 10. I have found inappropriate chat messages from another female to my husband. My husband said he wasn’t happy, especially with my weight gain. We just finished building a new house and moved into it. The messages to the other woman date back two years. We have been in counseling and everything seemed to be resolved. I have obvious trust issues because I found the text messages. A second time, this time with an ex-wife, my husband says he’s done. He’s tired of me snooping and I just need to get over it. He doesn’t know [...]

   

• Feelings Follow Choice: Choice Creates Desire

  In Christian Advice, Happy, SeriousFaith / 29 August 2012 / 8 comments

  

  I have a handful of topics/posts I like to refresh and revisit once a year or so because they are so timeless and important. It benefits new readers for obvious reasons, and never fails to be an edifying reminder to those who may have read about it in the past. The topic I’m writing about today is especially appropriate for the New Year since many people have made commitments to improve things in their life. This lesson will help in pretty much any endeavor. Feelings Follow Choice… Willful Choices Produce Desire and Feelings If there is a favorite thing I like to teach on other than the Bible, it would be the idea  “feelings follow choice”. We live in a culture where feelings reign supreme [...]

   

• The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far

  In Cultural Commentary, Happy, Parenting, Personal Opinion & Commentary / 29 August 2012 / 0 comments

  

  I’m sitting here in IHOP studying and drinking coffee. This attractive, designer-dressed, early-twenty-something young lady got seated at the table next to me. After placing her order, she pulls out her phone and dials a call to a hospital to discuss a bill. In what started out as a mildly snotty tone she informs them that she’s already called once to change her address, and informs them “I”m traveling for the next three months and I will NOT [her emphatic voice] being answering this phone so you are wasting your time calling.” She then goes on to inform them in a condescending and overtly smug tone “when I came into your hospital, I asked them ‘do you accept insurance from _________.’”   She continued, “I asked [...]

   

• My Son The Jerk

  In Christian Advice, Contented, Happy, Parenting, Personal Opinion & Commentary / 11 August 2012 / 4 comments

  

  A reader asks: How do I give my twenty-something year old son an ultimatum when I know it isn't totally his fault that he is acting the way he is?  What I want to say to him is this: "Either participate in our family unit or don't expect anymore effort from any of us until you do show some sort of desire to be involved. You have refused to make contact with your family here and you have not acknowledged the gifts you have received and you have not made any effort at all to call anyone." Ever since he began living with his dad when he was much younger, he completely stopped any and all effort to have a meaningful relationship with me and [...]