Growing up, my siblings and I—like many, many children over the years—had to do chores. For some chores we were paid. Cutting the grass, for instance, netted us five dollars (if I recall correctly; I may be embellishing that downwards …). For what it is worth, the one I hated the most was picking up…

I don’t know about any of you, but I occasionally have a difficult time giving equal grace to others. What I mean is this: I sometimes fail to extend the same grace to others that I extend to myself. I know my faults, my foibles, my shortcomings, my imperfections, my eccentricities, etc. I have lived…

In the 2000 film, “Cast Away,” Tom Hanks plays the part of Chuck Noland, a systems analyst for FedEx. Noland is constantly on the road and in the air, traveling from place to place to troubleshoot problems in locations around the world. There is a lot of backstory in the movie, and a lot of…

Much of this I have shared before. This “what-if list” is something that I privately revisit on a regular basis—rewording, adding, taking away, editing. It convicts me, at least most of it. Hopefully, prayerfully, it will be valuable to you as well. What if goodness overcame wickedness? What if my money became a tool for…