All of My Thoughts and Articles
Don’t Wait Until It Hurts
My shoulder has been bothering me for a few weeks. I hurt it doing an exercise in CrossFit, and it hasn’t gotten better yet. After trying to deal with it myself for a while, I finally ...
Do We Have a Sin Nature?
Throughout most of my life, I have had the nagging suspicion that something was wrong with me. When I was younger, these feelings were focused on my body, because I was overweight and got made ...
The Power of Surroundings
Most of the time when we think about making a change in our life, we think about changing something inside us. There are good reasons for this. When it comes down to it, we can ...
Easter and the Power of Hope
If someone were to ask me to boil down the message of Easter to one word, it would be hope. Hope is a powerful thing. It offers a message that tomorrow is a new day—and ...
Be Coca-Cola or Pepsi
At some point early in graduate school, I had a powerful conversation with my mentor that I still remember today. In what seemed like an odd conversation starter, he asked me to think about the ...
The Trouble With Feedback
Getting feedback from others can be helpful, but sometimes it can take you off course and stop you from pursuing your mission and purpose in life. This can happen irrespective of whether the feedback is positive or ...
The Work: How to Question Painful Thoughts
One of the most important insights from psychology is that the events and situations in our lives do not directly lead to our emotions and reactions. Instead, the events and situations that happen in our ...
Put the Idea on a Shelf
Not too long ago, I woke up in the middle of the night, feeling anxious. I was thinking about a work project that was due in a couple of weeks. I was nervous about it, ...
What Do You Do With Your Extra?
I was listening to a sermon about poverty by Paul Rasmussen, and he shared something that made a big impact on me. The focus of the talk was on our “extra.” He wanted each of ...
