18th century Philosopher Immanel Kant (Kaant) thought he was rescuing Christianity from skepticism by placing it beyond the realm of the rational. He wrote in his book, “Critique of Pure…
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Why do you do what you do? “You went to work” (or not) “You stopped at a stop sign” (or not) “You said a kind word to a co-worker.” (or…
The negativity bias is the cognitive or thinking error that causes negative events, emotions, thoughts to register much more profoundly than positive ones. You could have an overall great day…
Psychiatrist Dr. Van der Kolk has been committed in his long career to helping people who have suffered with trauma. I applaud his work and commitment. But I was interested…
This is me and coach Jefferies taken in 2019 when he was here on campus for a reunion…and a picture of him back in his WSU coaching days. Just to…
The past few weeks, we’ve talked about this theme of nurturing confidence. This confidence is rooted and anchored in Christ… an objective reality. So, it’s not just a subjective self-confidence….
One of the most important principles, I believe, for personal, relational health…in families, businesses, churches, communities, everywhere…is the Privilege/Responsibility balance principle. I won’t belabor the point, because I’ve talked about…
Two weeks ago I attended mandatory Combat Lifesaver skills training…I’m not going to combat…but it was interesting. The training has been updated from years past because of lessons learned from…
Can you have confidence? Should you have confidence? Is it arrogant? Naive? Unkind? I ask that because in terms of certain things, current culture values uncertainty. To be confident of…
Today, in our Western secular culture, some of the themes from the book of Hebrews, seem to be far from our cultural imagination: temple, covenant, kings, priests, blood sacrifice, atonement,…
I’ve been helping our four-year-old, Shepherd, learn how to ride his bike without training wheels – He’ll get his elbow pads and his helmet on and we’ll go outside and…
Last Fall we baptized a couple of college students out at Terry’s property, in his pond – Terry was gone for the weekend but he let us use his property…