Clean, Bright & New

I hope the past year has gone well for you and the new one will be even better. I think New Year’s Day is a great holiday. It tends to get the short end of the appreciation stick because it comes right after Christmas and can easily be overshadowed by it (i.e., compare the numberContinue reading “Clean, Bright & New”

The Power Of Faith

I wrote this post when Zig Ziglar passed away in 2012.  For those of you who don’t recognize the name, he was probably the top motivational speaker of the 80’s and 90’s.  Along with Dr. Robert Schuller (of Crystal Cathedral fame), Ziglar popularized the kind of thinking that Norman Vincent Peale had written about a generation earlierContinue reading “The Power Of Faith”

Hope Deferred?

To have hope is to have a future. The late Christopher Reeve was close to the mark when he said, Once you choose hope, anything is possible. (If he had Christ in mind when he spoke those words, then he was right on the mark!).  To have Christ is to have hope. Peter reminds his readers they have beenContinue reading “Hope Deferred?”