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“How deep do you want to go?” These were the first words spoken by a jedi-knight of a counselor to my close friend as he embarked on a five-day counseling intensive.  Their meaning is simple and yet profound, and the answer isn’t assumed.  The counselor needed to know because my buddy’s response would be the...

Statistically, there are more heart attacks on Monday morning than any other time in the week. I’m sure you don’t have to hear that statistic to know the truth behind it; we’ve all tasted it. Monday morning can be a  treacherous outcropping with merciless waves of overwhelming responsibility, pressure and stress crashing in hard; along...

No wonder the Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit the Wild Goose; to follow him is to invariably be led on an adventure we would mostly never choose on our own. Recently, he took a wild, maddening turn in front of me through a great friend’s trip to the ER (thank you, Jon). In the...

I took this picture of my youngest brother Lance on an ice laden stream in the northeast, just minutes after I helped him take his daily dose of chemo.  In that moment, and in many others Lance became a giant in my heart.  Dan Allender said of a remarkable wedding he attended, “In the end,...

$824.00 for Disneyland. I thought $90 a week for a kick in the nuts (counseling) was a rough go… But to shell out $824 for a three-day family pass just to have close proximity to a Galactic Gobbler or the not-sure-why-it’s-famous cheesesteak…? I don’t know if it’s mentoring from Dave Ramsey or my old Jewish...

a·rise/əˈrīz/ v. come into being; emerge   When fathering your children, father them as God fathers you… Model for them how to RISE UP as true sons and daughters of God. – Allen Who do you want your children to become? Who are you today? Become today what what you want your children to one...