I love living in Nashville, Tennessee, the epicenter of creativity; not just in music, but in film, art, and so many other endeavors.  I love being around a creative atmosphere.
But for those who think being creative comes easy, it doesn’t.  It comes with a high price.  Over the years as I’ve struggled to be creative [...]

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Recently a nationally known preacher announced that God had personally and directly (and I think audibly) told him there’s going to be an earth-shattering calamity in the very near future.
This preacher’s first point of advice was to go and get thirty days’ worth of groceries.  I don’t know if that strikes you as odd, but [...]

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Today at The Gathering we continued in our current series, “The Power To Prevail: Turning Adversities Into Advantages.”
Today we talked about taking stress, something we all experience as long as we’re alive, and turning it into strength; something few us seem able to do because we don’t know how.
There is one odd thing about Christianity [...]

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Today at The Gathering we continued in our current series, “The Power To Prevail.”  This is based on my book, “The Power To Prevail.”
I’ve set up a web site called ThePowerToPrevail.com where you can go and get a free course in The Power To Prevail delivered straight to your inbox, find the book, and also [...]

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I’m a blogger and the more I do it, the more compelled I am to find reasons to continue to do it, because it does take time and effort.  So I’ve sat down and written ten reasons why I blog and why you should too.
1.    You should blog because it gives you leverage.  Most of [...]

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I like blogging and I like reading blogs.  I think blogging is an important tool that has been added to our arsenal in our endeavors to live the best life possible.  And I used to think everyone should blog, but I don’t anymore.
Here are ten reasons why you should not blog:
1.    You shouldn’t blog if [...]

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Today @ The Gathering we continued in our current series. “The Power To Prevail,” with an installment entitled, “Turning Your Can’ts Into Cans.”
This is a really serious concept because so many people you hear talking, talk about their can’ts; not their cans: what they might do if other things were available.  The truth is, you [...]

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