I love life, l love people, I love growing. As I counsel and coach others, I invite them to live with purpose as we enlist the support of God and strive to become the people we know we can be. More →
Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20 I am concerned about the ever-present temptation to move away from truly living by faith. Growing involves the [...]
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“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Hebrews 11:1 The Oxford English Dictionary defines faith as, “Confidence, reliance, belief, esp. without evidence or proof. The spiritual apprehension of divine truth or intangible realities.” I am struck by the phrase, “without evidence or [...]
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A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. John 13:34 Marriage. It is fun and exciting at first; however, it is much more challenging to nurture and grow over the long haul. Falling in love and deciding to get married is [...]
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Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 Relational unrest and breakdown is all around us and has hit close to home. Recently, we were surprised to see moving vans in front of the house of our next-door neighbors. They were a young couple with [...]
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”The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred… unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Meaningful decisions that lead to personal transformation begin [...]
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(This speech was written by the daughter of one of our CLE families. She is a senior at a local high school and was delivering this speech to her Cross Country teammates, parents and coaches at their end of season banquet. I hope you are inspired by her intitiative, courage, dedication and leadership. Her parents [...]
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“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7,8 My adventure of writing my first book [...]
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The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. (Mark 1:27) I want my life to have meaning and my words to have impact. “Greater works than these shall we do,” promises Jesus. What is my greater work? [...]
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I recently filled in for one of my pastor friends at his church, North Shore Assembly of God, in Skokie. The title of my sermon is, The Most Unlikely Disciple. It is built around the story of Zacchaeus and the message and content is expounded upon in my upcoming book Grappling with God to be [...]
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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 1 Cor 9:24 It was approximately six years ago when I was first challenged to write a book. Today, I am making final edits on [...]
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