Last week Paula and I took some good friends out for dinner. We went to a really good restaurant that we that we’ve always enjoyed and always experienced great service, up until that night. The truth is, our service was horrible. The waiter couldn’t get the order right, couldn’t get the drink order right, [...]

The choices you’re making today you will live with tomorrow–good or bad. # What you’re building today you will have to manage and maintain tomorrow. Build wisely. # Share This

Join us this weekend at The Gathering when we continue our current series “Chasing Balance,” with principle four, “Rhythm.” As we learned last week, God created us to work; to have intense periods of full engagement. But He also created us to rest. So in this talk we’re going to be striking the balance between [...]

Yesterday was Labor Day, a holiday on which we stop working to celebrate working. Working is something that seems to be so natural and part of life, we don’t often think about why we work. It’s not just to fund your lifestyle or pay your debts. There is something you get out of the [...]

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein # Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh # Frustration does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows but only empties today of its strength. [...]

Great bike ride today in the Tn countryside. Me, Paula and the Lipskis and the Vassars. What a day! # Share This

“The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.” --Francoise de Motteville “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” –Frank Lloyd Wright “The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” –Jonas Salk “Never work [...]

Anothet perfect day to Gathering to worship in order to go worship everywhere else! # Today we are talking about the importance of full engagement! # It’s amazing to me that we Christians expect, non believers to act better than we do # I am not what I do, but I can’t be what I am fully until [...]

Today @ The Gathering we continued in our present series, “Chasing Balance” with installment number three, “Engage,” striking the right balance between trying and trusting. It was David’s son Solomon who made this profound statement: “A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. It is a [...]

You can do what you didn’t but should have done. # The best is just ahead, don’t give up hope! # Share This