Recommended

The book, The Pressure’s Off, by Larry Crabb. It’s a great and potentially life-changing book. The book is about wanting God and nothing less, realizing that not even God’s blessings will do. Only Jesus and intimacy with Him will bring us the satisfaction and freedom we long for. Here’s a quote: We’re never more deceived…

Did you know that there are about 260,709 people with my first name. It’s the 252nd most popular first name in America. And there are about 3,786 people with my last name. It’s the 9,118th most common last name in our country. Statistically, the estimate is that there are about 3 people with my first…

… family traditions. When I talk to people about their childhood, the thing I’ve noticed is that what people speak most fondly of are their family traditions. It can be almost anything with some meaning that was done repeatedly. And so we’ve tried to tie traditions to a lot of things. One is that years…

I give you an important life recommendation every week, and this is a weird one. But here’s the sequence of events: I was talking to a kinda professional chef once and asked him his favorite things to make. He said that for desserts, he loves making anything with grilled fruit. I said, “Grilled fruit? Like…

Last week I finally read Switch, by Chip & Dan Heath. (They also wrote Made To Stick, which is fantastic and the best book I’ve read on communicating.) Switch is about how change happens: If you want to change, if you want to help someone else change, if you want to bring change to an…