I watched the ESPN coverage of Kurt Warner’s anticipated press conference yesterday in which he announced his retirement from the National Football League. Warner has always been a class act, and on the final stage of his playing career he didn’t disappoint. Warner said some very gracious things about others around his life who gave…
Month: January 2010
Living with Resolve: Places and Spaces (part 3)
Reading through Genesis 12:4-9, the biographer reports on two occasions that Abram stopped and erected an altar in the midst of pagan people. If you read on you’ll observe that through his life he built many more altars that would become spiritual markers for him. In the midst of all of the transition, change and…
Living with Resolve: Places and Spaces (part 2)
The story of Abram begins abruptly in Genesis 12:1-3. Following the death of his father, Abram received a special call from God to leave the security of his comfort zone and begin living the adventure of faith. God’s first word to Abram was “leave.” The reader might expect the first word to be “go,” but…
Living with Resolve: Places and Spaces (part 1)
Do you ever reflect on how you came to live in Central Iowa? Some of us may be natives who have never really gone far from home. Others are native, who, after a time of checking our greener grass in other places have returned. Others among us are transplants, traversing from faraway places while navigating…
Living with Resolve
Since I’ve been married I’ve moved seven times. Seven times in nearly 25 years. Some of those moves were simply across town. Three of them crossed state lines. The moves across town were aggravating because we didn’t take the time to pack as carefully as we did when we made a major transition, so some…
Disney Dynamics 5
We spent our first day at Disney in its most storied and celebrated park: The Magic Kingdom. There we were able to see Disney at its best. We rode the classic rides, the most famous of which toured us through the seven continents where we heard dolls sing “It’s a Small World After All” in…
Living With Resolve: Participating in God’s Mission
Many of us began 2010 by making New Year’s Resolutions. This common practice is usually accompanied by the common practice of breaking the New Year’s Resolutions. Why do we have a hard time keeping those pesky promises we make to ourselves and to others?The basic definition of a resolution is “a formal expression of a…
Disney Dynamics 4
What do you think of when you hear the word “classic?” As a guy in his mid forties I tend to think of classic automobiles, such as the ’57 Chevy or the ’65 Ford Mustang. One of the more intriguing things about Disney World was its ability to retain all that is classic without becoming…
Living with Resolve
Here’s the artwork for my new weekend series on the life of Abraham!
Simon Sinek on Communication
Great clip shared with me by Brent Clark.
