July 2020
July 19
Day 127: Reputation Management How we think people regard us is important. Mostly to ourselves. We spend inordinate amounts of time managing our reputations. Social media is just the platform, upon which we can create and then massage our preferred vision of ourselves, curated for other people's consumption. God also manages His reputation, but has […]
July 18
Day 126: Blood On Our Hands If you are a leader, you cannot read Ezekiel 34 dispassionately. If you are a pastor, an elder, deacon, or GC leader, this chapter holds a potential indictment for us all. The leaders amongst God's people had not acknowledged the warning signs, nor sounded the alarm for the people. […]
July 17
Day 125: Rearrange My Day I've been accused of many things over the course of my life. Much of it true. Comes as part of the pastor's job description. Or more likely, the "Mike Profile." But there remain some things I've never been accused of. I've never been accused of being older (wiser) than I […]
July 16
Day 124: Frequently and Quickly Perhaps in just the past decade, we've become a society of people who now form their identity on the platform of their own opinions. Church people are not exempt. Rene' Descartes once said, "I think, therefore I am." But that has now morphed into, "What I think, and what others […]