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Measuring the Success of Your Family
For 2023, consider making some adjustments for your family. I often say that one of the simple ways to measure the success…
Start with Your Family Stories
Building great family culture starts with stories. Brad Grey of Walking the Text teaches a simple truth: in Jewish families, from birth…
Growing A Generous Family
If you are reading this, you are already in process with thinking about how to create a generous legacy. I use that…
Empty Nest? Ha! Try this….
Families have seasons, and for us we’ve reached that season called empty nest. Our youngest flew the coop at the end of…
Giving With Your Life
She’s from a Middle East country. She came to America on a green card. For now, she lives with us, and she’s…
What Does It Mean To Be Successful?
Most of us will never get the stage. Most of us will never share a newspaper headline, and frankly, wouldn’t want it….
Be Generous Today
It’s Monday at Panera, and this scene is being repeated 1,000 times over across the country. People—some of them in a hurry,…
It’s All About The Gift
Consider it. What would happen if John 3:16 simply read, “For God so loved the world?” What if God did nothing more…
Defining Success
I have wondered often about success. What is it? Why do we long for it, lose sleep and train endlessly to attain…
The Wrong Way to Judge a Ministry
For years, the gold standard in ministry effectiveness has been how much is spent on administrative costs. The arbitrary standard is that…
The Cost of the Panera Gospel
Wistful. It’s the only way I can describe it. She was clearly a grandmother holding her grandchild on one of those formica…