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…
Read MorePsychiatrist 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…
Read MoreThis 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…
Read MoreThe 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.…
Read MoreOne 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…
Read MoreTwo 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…
Read MoreCan 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…
Read MoreToday, 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,…
Read MoreI’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…
Read MoreLast 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…
Read MoreIt feels like we're living in an age of perpetual crisis: the environmental crisis, health care crisis, energy crisis, drug crisis, debt crisis, education crisis, and the marriage crisis. There…
Read MoreI want you to imagine that you are in a courtroom. You are the judge, you are the prosecutor, you are the jury. The defendant is God. All rise… court…
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