It gets a little awkward when the person in front of you is still living in the glory days of high school, especially when a decade or two has passed. Life is to be lived in the present – because living from the fading afterglow of the past just betrays a lack of engagement with … More More Than the Afterglow

Sometimes you just feel defeated. Deflated. It’s easier to just keel over and surrender to the relentless kicks in the guts rather than raising another fist to keep up the fight. But then comes that bright light of Hope over the horizon. It is the promise of God – reminding us that: No matter how … More Undefeated

Sometimes God’s answer to helping you turn a corner is to corner you in. Moses must have been perplexed when God told Moses to lead his people into a corner: “Order the Israelites to turn back and camp by Pi-hahiroth between Migdol and the sea. Camp there along the shore, across from Baal-zephon. Then Pharaoh … More Cornered

I love Apple products. They are simple to use, and extremely reliable. But it doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a phenomenal amount of creative energy, intentionality and countless hours of programming, design and hard work to produce such user friendly products. The hard work behind the scenes creates an easily accessible, user friendly product … More User Freindly

Have you ever tried to control things so much that you create a rod for your back – and the very things you want to control begin to spiral out of control? Whether it’s out of fear, insecurity, or simply a lack of trust in God or people, all of us are tempted to control … More When Control Becomes Uncontrolable

Our kids were so excited! It was Christmas morning and each of them wriggled with excitement as they waited to open their presents. As the wrapping ripped away their eyes opened wide as each of them pulled out a brand new watch (among other presents), and one of them got a remote control car. Sadly, … More Your Usability Is In Your Reliability

Enough of being a spectator. It’s time to get out of the grandstands and step into the arena. This is exactly what Peter did. He had enough of wishing what ‘might happen’ or dreaming of what ‘could have happened’. In that moment on the boat as Jesus called him to walk on water, Peter made … More Step Into the Arena

If you want a plant to truly flourish, you need to take it out of the pot and plant it in the soil. When you take a plant out of the constricted space of a pot, it’s roots are free to go down deep into the soil to draw water and nutrients, and there is … More Potted to Planted

Do you ever feel like God is out to get you, or simply forgotten about you? Maybe after an encounter with God you said goodbye to your old life and began to wholeheartedly pursue a relationship with Him – and now, months or years later, rather than being led to an oasis, you now find … More No Water at Meribah

When I stopped at the traffic lights the other day my eyes began to wander. I noticed the floor of the car had collected a few more wrappers and miscellaneous disposable items than usual. So I leaned over to do a quick spring clean, but as I stretched my arm out the lights turned green … More Focus On the Future Not Your Faults