On my desk is a post-it note that reads: Be Better Than Yesterday. I look at this quite often. One of the great temptations in our work is to coast. Actually, this is one of the great temptations of life. People who coast have figured out a way to do life with little effort. We… Continue reading Ministry Inside.144
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Who do you intend to be? Will you finish well? I recently read Walter Wright’s most recent book The Third Third of Life: Preparing for Your Future. Wright is the former President of Regent College in Vancouver. Wright suggest that one’s life can be divided into thirds. “I like to think of life in thirds.… Continue reading Ministry Inside.128
Lifelong Learners Grow Emotionally and Relationally
They may be pleasant and intelligent people. Very often, they are Christian people. There are some people who have developed their thinking processes quite well. There are some who have the capacity to grasp intellectual complexities and make sense of them. Yet, some of these same people never seem to grow up emotionally. Yet,… Continue reading Lifelong Learners Grow Emotionally and Relationally
Five Suggestions for Staying Fully Alive
He stood before our church and preached. Each week, this figure in a dark suit opened the Bible and talked. I was in my later years of elementary school, so I don’t remember a lot about this man. But I do remember that when he preached, it seemed dull. I don’t think it was the… Continue reading Five Suggestions for Staying Fully Alive