Are you tired of feeling anxious? Stop feeding your anxiety. Are you tired of feeling angry? Stop feeding your anger. Are you tired of feeling arrogant? Stop feeding your arrogance. Don’t feed what you don’t want to grow…

Life…no one gets out alive. How do we navigate life when we know it always ends in death? How do we assign purpose, meaning, and value to our little blip on the timeline of humanity? How do we escape hopelessness, despair, and regret? How do we transcend self to connect to something greater? We have three options: a cabin, a cave, or a fire…

“Failure is not an option!” That phrase is often used by leaders as a motivating statement to express the importance of whatever mission they are pursuing. It sounds great, but it isn’t true…

Do you ever feel like your life is in a rut? Like you are just spinning your wheels? Like you have no traction and you are not going anywhere?…

Truth and love go hand-in-hand. Any attempt to separate love from truth or truth from love results in painful relational damage. Genuine expressions of love are truthful and genuine expressions of truth are loving. God is love and God is truth…God is truth and God is love…

Leadership is making your next best bad decision. Whether it is organizational leadership, family leadership, or self-leadership…we all face difficult choices each day…

Emotions are a hot topic. It is good that our cultural dialogue is exploring how to properly deal with emotions, because emotions are important. We are emotional people created by an emotional God who must find a way to emotionally connect with other emotional people…

Over the last couple of years, I developed a habit of posting notes on the wall in my study. The notes are in my line of sight while I sit at my desk and work on my computer. They are an eclectic collection of personally tested truths that remind me of who I am, what I am called to do, and how I want to encourage others to be. I find them to be useful reminders for me personally, organizationally, and relationally…