Getting In Touch With Your Emotions
In my work with coaching people, I often find that people are afraid to feel. In learning to avoid the negative emotions that produce pain, we inadvertently learn to turn off our emotions entirely. Much of the journey as a human being is often relearning how to feel. Each week, I will post a photo and ask two questions. What …
Coaching Moment – Making It Through Suffering
A friend of mine called me this week. I’ve coached him on and off throughout the last couple of years. We talked for about an hour sharing stories about our families, our work, and our journey. He and his family have encountered some hard times during the recession and he’s still struggling. But the tone in his voice was noticeably …
Coaching Moment – A Powerful Story
What is the story behind everything you do? A little while ago I was coaching someone who was trying to overcome a deep sense of fear. This person was afraid God wasn’t going to like who she was if she was honest with herself about her own failures. So instead of being honest about them, she would overcompensate for them …
Getting In Touch With Your Emotions
Today I’m starting a new series of posts on Fridays called, Getting In Touch With Your Emotions. In my work with coaching people, I often find that people are afraid to feel. In learning to avoid the negative emotions that produce pain, we inadvertently learn to turn off our emotions entirely. Much of the journey as a human being is …
Change In Focus – Leadership In Life
Over the last five years I have been blogging primarily about the human experience and theology. I’ve loved every minute of writing, dialoguing with you the reader, and engaging questions, push backs and the occasional arguments. It’s been healthy. One of the things I’ve tried to create is a healthy dialogue even in disagreement. And I’m proud of that. But …
Interview With Kathy Escobar
Kathy Escobar is a good friend of mine and has a new book out called Down We Go: Living Into the Wild Ways of Jesus. It is in my opinion one of the best books on church I’ve ever read. And I’ve read a lot. I had the chance to sit down with Kathy and discuss the book with her. …
Grace For All People
Just saying… All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord; they will bring glory to your name. (Ps 86:9) Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. (1 Ch 16:34) “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.” (Joel 2:28) The LORD will lay bare his …
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The Original Problem
It’s interesting to me that the first problem mentioned in the Bible is with the only problem every human being in history must deal with: Death.
