What Were You Celebrating Last Tuesday?
Let me lead off with a confession/reveal: I have no significant link to Irish forebears. Both of our daughters were given names with an Irish lilt (Shannon and Erin), but the only “green” in our family comes out on St. Patrick’s Day, if at all. Was St. Patrick’s Day
Whose Opinion Is Really Credible?
Solomon is a reliable source of wisdom. According to God, he was the wisest man ever (that, from the Only One Who has known every man who ever lived). Catch Solomon before his late-in-life decline – attributed to too many wives who did not share his faith in Jehovah – and his insights are still helpful.
Where Is The Hope?
What are your plans for the rest of the year? I’m thinking about putting together a very special travel opportunity for a select group of friends: I’m on the lookout for an island with tropical weather and clean beaches, with no airport or reliable internet coverage. All screens would be banned, but books would be welcomed.
Here’s the answer everyone is seeking!
Jesus said it to his Twelve Apostles – at the Last Supper, in the Upper Room – but His charge to them became His charge to us, through 20 centuries: “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit – fruit that will last – and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you” (John 15:16). Have you been “chosen and appointed?”
Do You Have An Opinion?
Are you getting started in any relationships that you hope become a continuing engagement? Here’s a coaching suggestion: avoid beginning any statement with “In my opinion…” and, second: resist the temptation to ask the question: “What’s your opinion?” Why might those be deal-killers?
Have you answered the “Big Question?”
George Bernard Shaw wasn’t being complimentary when he observed: “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” Given the choice between those conditions, it’s better to know nothing than to think you know everything.