Paint Marks
You’ve seen them while waiting for traffic light to change. Different colored lines, arrows, circles and squares, spray painted on the street. They appear to be completely random. Sometimes running…
Photograph
We know it’s important to make memories. Are we helping make memories for others? Determined not to accumulate any school loans during my seminary program, I served full-time on staff…
A Higher Level Of Known Ignorance
Ever look forward to a moment only to realize the moment isn’t what you thought it would be? May of 1999. The night of my graduation from Phoenix Seminary. I’d…
Smart Or Wise?
For many years my great-grandparents had a Franklin cook stove. The original “heavy metal”, it provided heat for the kitchen and for cooking their meals. There was nothing modern about…
The Success Syndrome
What does success look like for you? During my Phoenix Seminary years many of my classes were held at Scottsdale Bible, a large church in the middle of affluent North…
When Your First Thought Jumps The Wrong Way
Where does your first thought lead you? Back in the day, my great-uncle had a livestock trucking business. One afternoon he was at the sale barn to pick up a…
God Can…So Why Doesn’t He?
God can. So why doesn’t He? During my seminary years I had a cleaning business. All it took was one ad in the Mesa Tribune to get me started. “Thompson…
“What If…” – Thoughts On Adoption
December 2000. Just two months prior I’d miraculously become an adoptive father to my twin daughters. I was working a Phoenix Suns game at America West Arena when a customer…
Fido And The Heater
Years ago my great uncle told me a story from his youth in small town Iowa. There was a guy in town who trained his dog to fetch him candy…
Knothead Knights And Damaged Damsels
I can’t remember the venue or the speaker. Given I wrote it down on the title page of my Bible, it was probably in a church. “Every human relationship in…