One of my favorite sports to play was volleyball. It was one sport where I felt like I might have been good enough to make a team. I was too ucoordinated for basketball, too skinny for football (true story). But I thought I was pretty good at not just jumping to block or spike, but … Read more

We’ve all heard different sayings and adages in our lives, especially as children. Sometimes they’ll have nuggets of truth, sometimes when we look back we realize they may not have been as true as we thought they were. I remember one I heard as a child on the playground. “Boys go to Jupiter to get … Read more

Math was always a challenge when I was growing up. It was bad enough when the teacher would give us a problem and we just had to enter our answer. Then they started requiring us to show our work. This was a problem, because I couldn’t bluff my way with just an answer any longer. … Read more

I was in college when I started watching the TV series “Friends.” It had a good cast, it was funny, and the show perfected the “will they, won’t they?” dynamic where you weren’t sure whether a couple would get together or not. A big part of that dynamic was the on again off again dance … Read more

This is the first of our series on practical wisdom from the book of James. As we look at the wisdom in James, understand that this is not just about understanding words of wisdom. These are words from God that we can apply in our lives. This is about God’s desire for us to live … Read more