
Reclaiming Your Ability to Trust
This is the fourth installment in my four-part series about moving from trust impaired to trust repaired to trust prepared. Obviously, I...

Judgments and Generalizations and Vows, Oh My!
This article is the third of four installments about learning how to trust all over again. With what we have gone through recently with...

What is Your Most Important Currency?
Last week we started a short series of articles about trust. I chose to write about trust because many people these days seem...

“Help … I Lost My Trust!”
Trust—that’s quite a word. It seems that our whole society is having trouble trusting anyone or anything. We are bombarded by those in...

Hanging Upside Down from a Telephone Pole?
Problems, problems, why problems? Have you noticed there is nothing that will improve your walk with God and your prayer life more than a...

The Tension of the Historian and the Statesman
During the last 40 years of my ministry, I have had the privilege of speaking in over 90 countries. My friends and contacts from afar are...

Erasing the Bullseye Target off of Hal
Cartoonist Gary Larsen inked quite a word picture in a cartoon. It is a picture of a big male deer with a target on his belly. Another...

2021: Be Positive and Be Negative
You might be saying to yourselves, “Ed, what does the title of this article mean?” It’s easy. This year be positive in your attitude and...

Were You Looking? Did You See It?
Were you looking? Did you see it last Thursday night and Friday? You might be thinking, “Looking for what?” Looking for Christmas, of...

Say Goodbye to Inadequacy and Inferiority
Inadequacy and inferiority are powerful words, aren't they? For many people, these words are their worlds. But inadequacy and inferiority...

Discovering the Invisible Force with Visible Results
Well, here we go into the Christmas season. This season, I am concerned about folks. Many people experience real depression and intense...

37 Nails Speaking to Us about Speaking
Read the following story from an unknown author. Enjoy it and employ it. There was a boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of...

A Potpourri of Powerful Perspectives, Wisdom, and Wit for 20/20 Living
Today I would like to pour out on you readers a potpourri of perspectives I have gleaned from others regarding life and living in 2020....

Take My Problem, But Leave My Pig
The priest said to the farmer, “If you had a horse, would you give it to the Lord?” “Yes, I would,” said the farmer. “And if you had a...

How Much Money Does It Take to be Rich?
The little girl was sitting in her grandfather’s lap as he read her a goodnight story. From time to time, she would take her eyes off the...

Our Current Tension with Risk and Fear
Recently, I read a Facebook post from one of my friends in Selangor, Malaysia. His name is Yew Chee Wai. I will write his post the way he...

Flying in the Friendly or Not So Friendly Skies
One of the highlights of my life was learning how to fly. It was quite a process. As a future private pilot, I had to go to flight school...

One in Ten Leaders Finishes Strong in Life. Why?
One of my favorite books is Finishing Strong by Steve Farrar. His research shows that only one in ten leaders finish strong. Farrar...

Urgently Caring for Tessa and Our Communities
Ten years ago, our granddaughter Tessa, was born in critical condition. Her lungs were full of infection. She almost died. My wife Becky...



















