Writings
What you have to give to others…
The title of this article is, by intent, a double entendre. That’s a fancy phrase from 17th century French for a word or phrase that is open to two meanings. In our case the word have can mean “what you possess,” and so the phrase would mean, “What you have
Stop and say hello
The ask “Tell me again the name of the town you’re from.” The request came from John Ortberg, a relatively new friend I was playing golf with. Both of us were preachers, both of us had grown up in Illinois, though in different parts, and both of us now lived
Can you tell good from evil?
This may surprise you, but there is a lot of evil in the world. OK, I’m kidding. If you’ve thought about it at all you know there is a lot of evil. We see it in all kinds of forms: bullying, terribly foul language, cheating on taxes, and calling in
A Farewell to Scott Adams, Doer of Good
The year was 1996, the place was Stacey’s Books on University Avenue in Palo Alto, California, and the people were me, my wife, and Scott Adams. Stacey’s Books closed in 2000, and now Scott Adams, creator of the cartoon character Dilbert, is also gone. He passed away on January 13
God bless you.
I was at a music conference in Colorado in the late 1990s, along with hundreds of others. Everyone there –from singers to songwriters to suits — was part of or wanted to be part of the Christian music industry. My songwriting and business partner, Gary Dugan, and I had traveled
A Clean Slate
Welcome to 2026, a brand new year! It is a tabula rasa as they say — a clean slate on which to write promises and possibilities. There is just one problem with a clean slate: It is basically a blank sheet of paper, and that can be intimidating. Even writers
Good News!
Have you noticed that in newspapers, on television, and online, more bad news is reported than good news? Me too, because it is. I wondered if it had always been that way, so I did a little research. The bad news is that the news is leaning much more to
Christmas Light
Did you put up a tree for Christmas? We did. In fact we have five trees this year. The most humble is a Charlie Brown tree, and there is something about it that I really love. It is pictured above, along with two carolers that we made many years ago.
When Christmas Is A Challenge
“Challenge” is one of those words that has elasticity. It isn’t quite Gumby, but like Gumby, who is made of clay, you can stretch it, you can bend it, you can even mold it into a meaning that fits the difficulty you are facing. And so it is that Christmas
Humor (and wisdom) on a Dish Towel
I choked on a carrot this afternoon, and all I could think was, “I bet a donut wouldn’t have done this to me.” That bit of humor is on a dish towel that often hangs on a door under our kitchen sink. It is a reminder to me of the
Getting to Carnegie Hall for Good
The story goes that in the 1970’s a young man visited New York. He went to see all the sites, from the Empire State Building to Wall Street to Yankee Stadium. Having never been there, he would often ask for directions. And so it was that on a fine summer
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