Category: Encouragement

  • Video of the Week

    Video of the Week

    So this week, I’m posting a video that I hope you all will enjoy and find encouraging and amazing. It is by the late king of the Ragamuffin Gospel, none other than Brennan Manning

  • The Fire Inside

    The Fire Inside

    A great new film starring Ryan Destiny, Brian Tyree Henry and Idrissa Sanogo, in a true story about a young, female, African American boxer, who stunned the world.

  • Song of the Week

    Song of the Week

    One of my favorite songs…

  • What to do?

    What to do?

    Another excerpt from my new book on living with chronic kidney disease…

  • Song of the Week

    Song of the Week

    The song of the week is from the former David Crowder Band, and How He Loves (us all), is a favorite, as it illustrates how fully God loves each and every one of His precious creations…

  • Meeting Michael Connelly

    Meeting Michael Connelly

    I had the pleasure of visiting a great new bookstore this weekend, Book Passage, in Corte Madera, Marin County, California, and of meeting their esteemed guest author, Michael Connelly.

  • Echo Men’s Retreat

    Echo Men’s Retreat

    At Mount Hermon, near Santa Cruz, CA My church, Central Christian, is in San Jose, California. It is a great place for Christians and God-seekers to congregate if they are serious about their faith, but also realize they are imperfect people in progress. We men of Central, some of us, participate in an annual men’s…

  • ‘Spare’

    ‘Spare’

    Spare, by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is a triumphant and engrossing volume, and is apparently outdoing other autobiographies and memoirs by a country mile.

  • Today

    Today

    A sort of journal entry Today I felt like crawling into a hole. My dark dank depressing fog led me to want to sleep it off, but something in me said, ‘Write it out instead’, so here I am. I feel empowered this morning, and I can only attribute it to God. When I move…

  • Guest Blogger

    Guest Blogger

    This is from a writer I encountered online a couple of years ago… When God Feels Far Far Away (And 4 Giveaways) I know—-we look like a lovely young family in that photo. And we were. Some of the time. But other times? Here’s the day it started. It was the 60th straight day of…