Do we need to feel sorry to be forgiven?

How does it feel when someone apologizes when they’re not sorry? It’s as if they were put up to it, or are simply trying to appease the person they’ve upset. When someone apologizes to me this way, I get frustrated because the other person and I haven’t rectified the issue, and what they’re apologizing for is just […]

What It Means to Have a Loving Father

Pastor Zedick mentioned a talk given to a group of inmates, ages 9-12, where 100% of them where members of a gang, have shot or owned a gun, where sexually active, and none of them had a father growing up. They had all been abandoned. I thought about this, and I wondered how many have […]

Jumping into the Lion’s Den

I meet with a group of very talented people for brunch every other month and one of the women has themed her year with the phrase “Get in there!” I love it – because it’s the idea of letting go of all inhibitions and taking action. Most of us in the group could apply that to learning a […]

The importance of Family in Society

Is family turmoil the cause of problems in society? We know that school-aged children are highly affected by their family environment. The problems start showing early, as many kindergarten teachers can quickly identify which students have bad home situations. It seems like today it’s worse than ever. More families are broken, there are more single parents, but what […]

Why go to church?

It’s Sunday. Pretty much the only day you can sleep in. And if you haven’t gone to church in a while, you might be thinking that you’d rather avoid the cliche sayings, the surface smiles and the general feeling that you have to pop out of your comfort zone just to be told to change […]