Can You Have Too Many Blessings?

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed with blessings you couldn’t respond with anything except “Thank you” but “thank you” just wasn’t enough? That’s how Becky and I feel right now. We’ve been adopted in Carbondale, Memphis, Anguilla/Rolling Fork, and Jackson. People have caught the vision behind RICH’S RIDE and shared time, talent, and treasure with […]

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What Are You Afraid Of?

In about a month I’m going to ride a stretch of road known as “alligator alley” during week three of Florida Hope Tour 2013. A number of friends have visited the area. Mostly I’m told it’s beautiful, interesting, and peaceful. They describe gorgeous scenery filled with abundant wildlife and unusual birds and plants. Then there […]

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What Do They Share?

We’re all so different, right? In the past four days I’ve spoken to: Folks from housing projects Kids in children’s church at a campus chapel Developmentally disabled adults Employees at a successful financial company Mentors for underprivileged inner-city kids learning character and life skills through golf Folks from an affluent suburban church Women in a […]

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Dreams Aren’t Free

I believe God wants us to dream and follow big, outrageous dreams. But let’s never fool ourselves. Dream-following has costs. On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of history’s most famous speeches. In perhaps its most recognized line, Dr. King proclaimed: I have a dream that my four little children will […]

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End

Happy Monday! A Sunday school class we visited this weekend got me thinking about today’s word-of-the-week… END If you’ve hung around the bible at all, you’ve heard of The Beatitudes. (Matthew 5:3-11) It’s always good to hear familiar verses phrased in new ways. The first of The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3) says: “Blessed are the poor […]

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The Dream Center

The Dream Center in Carbondale isn’t what I expected. The building’s kind of nondescript. Inside, things are plain. The furniture’s a bit worn around the edges. It’s serviceable, but certainly not fancy. At first glance, one might feel that the concerned people need to change the furniture, maybe buy a fancy table, drawer pedestal, or […]

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Spiritual Cholesterol

My friend Dick Foth has a way with phrases. Recently he described a spiritual ailment called “hardening of the categories (HTC).” Those afflicted with this disease lose the ability to see individuals. Instead, they see people only in terms of their categories. It’s like the physical disease in which hardening of the arteries narrows the […]

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He Likes Me!

Don Miller wrote a penetrating reflection about how his faith has evolved in the past decade or so. I paused a long time over one simple heading: Jesus likes me I believe Jesus loves me. It’s in the words of the simplest children’s song. Jesus loves me This I know For the bible Tells me […]

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