Clueless

Clueless

The skies were overcast—the wind blustery. The weather forecast called for snow in southern Illinois. But the real gloom on the horizon was a jaw-dropping prayer call ahead of me. It was a hectic day on the prayer line. As soon as I hung up one call, another was...

How to Be Strong in the Lord

How to Be Strong in the Lord

We hear so much these days about peak performance and excellence, the importance of desire, effort, discipline, commitment, and the power of hard work and persistence. Whew! I get exhausted just reading about it.  But don’t lose heart. Toward the end of his...

Surrender to Win

Surrender to Win

To this day, when it comes to my recovery, there’s nothing easy about surrendering. Everything in me fights it, and whatever I let go of usually has claw marks all over it. So why did I think it would be easy to let go of the character defects I’d clung to for so...