A life story

As the passionate story poured from the man’s heart I marveled at the story of God’s grace and saving power.  The man had lived a life soaked in the darkest parts of a city’s underbelly.  Now here he was telling of how God has changed him, his life, his home, his family.  It was (is)…

Who is on your enemies list?

Who’s on your enemy list?  You know what I mean.  Whose names are listed in your thinking when it comes to hate?  Is the word hate too strong? You perhaps don’t even know you hate them, but when you see them, hear their name, watch their actions you feel the rage well up within you. …

My car Franky

“Culture resides in our minds, in the stories we tell ourselves”, so says Peter Senger author of The 5th Discipline.  If that is true, and it resonates with me that it is, then changing culture is about changing the stories we tell ourselves. Let me illustrate. One of the cars I drove was a 1995…