It is time to rethink the obvious. Smartphones and social media are reframing our calendar and defining our lives.
Over the last two-plus decades since the Internet IPO, internet users have increased from 35 million in 1995 to 2.8 billion in 2015. And 73 % of the global population uses a cellular phone (up from 1% in 1995).
Which picture best describes how you feel about Christmas?
If you chose {B}, you are not alone. Most adults I talk with in-person or on social media feel a bit frantic at this time of year. Dancing around the Christmas tree like Charlie Brown and Snoopy has fallen to the bottom of the to-do lists of shopping,
When God called me to ministry leadership, I knew I had truly found purpose in life. The opportunity to have a vocation where people gather together for life transformation that becomes world changing. For me, it is better than Disneyland.
Ministry was never a place I thought I would encounter discrimination.
I am enamored by athletes who achieve radical goals. Professional athletes; people who quit their jobs to join climbing expeditions simply to reach the highest peaks in the world. Ultra-marathoners who run, bike and/or swim for hundreds of miles, pushing their bodies to the limits to win a race.
“No one wants to talk about it. But everyone has it…unless you are a sociopath.” This was one of Brene’ Brown’s opening lines from her world renowned TED Talk, Listening to Shame.