My friend, if you are reading this today and have never experienced the agony of being Stuck In-Between or in a Hellish Hallway, as Jentezen Franklin refers to it in Acres of Diamonds, then I beg you to share with the rest of this world your amazing secret. Better yet--write a book, generate significant income, …
Month: August 2021
Uncharted Territory
Deep inside of my soul, God created an adventurous spirit; it might not get out much anymore, but every once in a while, a spark manages to ignite. Now, before your mind imagines me heading out into Uncharted Territory like Lewis and Clark, braving the unknown, camping among the wild animals, the reality is more …
Strange Gifts
Do you possess a God-given talent that is so unique that some might call it a Strange Gift? There’s just this skill that comes so naturally to you that it is like breathing, but others are baffled, because for them, this quality proves so challenging. One Strange Gift bestowed upon me relates to organization, and …
That Voice!
Conceiving that no one else could possibly share my experiences of hearing a voice-over during a television advertisement and feeling the urgency to identify who it belongs to, imagine the utter delight in having a You, Too? moment when reading Chad Veach’s Faith Forward Future. Chad seems to be more disciplined than me because when …
Life Lessons from Benji
by Dr. Kelvin Moore, Union University, from 2021 Fall Faculty Workshop My wife and I live on a road. We don't live on a street or in a subdivision. Five additional houses, four of whom were family, exist on this approximately mile and one-half road. The road is country and county, we don't live inside …
Big Doors, Little Hinges
Doors and Hinges seem to be appearing often in my reading lately, and every time it happens, I am reminded of a segment from Build It Bigger, a video we view in our sport facilities class, where Danny Forster examines how engineers and welders solve a problem with the large windowed doors that create the …
First Day Experience: Faculty Workshop
On my computer reside some unpublished drafts of a series about First Day Experiences in various situations, and I share a little on this topic in earlier posts such as The First 48 and FDE: College Athletics, but today the focus is on a positive opening day to a new semester that occurred this week …
Stuck In-Between
I’m truly hoping that none of my neighbors were so fascinated with my lawn-mowing prowess that they were glued to their window watching me sashay across the front yard only to find myself Stuck In-Between a large, metal utility box and my lawn. Yes, this was one of those moments when you are completely aware …
Burn the Ships
As mentioned previously in the post entitled Teach Me, I am struggling to learn the lesson that when God repeatedly places a concept in front of me, I am to respond with, “Lord, what do you want me to learn from this _____?” Rarely is the blank filled with the noun “song,” but I’m accepting …
Digital Philosophy
Within me exists a tension between what I am discovering on this pilgrimage to determine the characteristics of a flourishing life, and the realities that our current culture (along with a very real enemy) is doing everything it can to stack the odds against us flourishing in any area, whether it be personal, professional, or …
Flourishing @ Life 