The Reason You May Be Lost

Driving in major urban areas of America can be a challenge – especially if you haven’t done much of it. But my ministry team member was doing a good job of navigating the Chicago area, driving me to a number of locations where I was speaking. In one case,...

Love That Won’t Let You Down

On our list of holidays that we all celebrate each year, I have a sneaking suspicion there might be at least one of them that was invented by greeting card companies and florists. In America we call it Valentine’s Day! Florists freak out and then they count...

How to Raise Kids Who Stay In Bounds

If you watch sports very much, you’ve no doubt seen some great plays that ended up not counting, because they made that great play out of bounds. Oh, I’ve seen many arguments over whether or not they actually were out of bounds at the time; many of them...

The Cost of Not Changing

Once you’ve tasted Vermont maple syrup, all the store brands taste like goo! So my ears picked up one night when NBC Nightly News started talking about the troubles that Vermont maple farmers were having that year. They focused on one farmer who lived on a farm...

Paved-Over Problems

If you travel America’s interstate highways much, you’ve seen lots of cars, lots of scenery, and lots of road kills. Yes, many animals still think they can beat the cars that are storming down the highway – and they’re wrong. They end up as...