The year is done. I've reported here monthly on my eleven goals for 2013 categorized in the areas of body, mind and spirit. Now it's time to give you the final report. Before looking at the details, though, I want to summarize my main lessons learned for the year. I blogged about them separately in …
Author: Jeff Ross
Author of "Next Step Devotions"; semi-retired after a career in Christian ministry and secular information technology; available for teaching and public speaking; lives in Winchester, KY
The god of Sports
We love our sports in America, and I'm sure that's just as true in other countries. This was in clear view Saturday as the most anticipated annual local rivalry game of the year took place in college basketball between my favorite team - the University of Kentucky Wildcats - and the University of Louisville Cardinals. …
Our Culture of Immediacy
We've seen this past week the impact of what happens when expectations are not met for something to happen quickly. In the rush of last-minute buying and shipping of Christmas presents, untold numbers of packages went undelivered by the "guaranteed" delivery dates. As a result, people either had to do without presents on the intended …
Looking Around the Corner at 2014
With Christmas behind us and the new year just around the corner, it's time to use our mental periscopes and peek around that corner into 2014. It's time to finalize the goals that will absorb much of our attention for the next 12 months. Have you thought about any accomplishments you'd like to achieve for …
My Christmas Wish For You
Christmas exists to remember and celebrate the first coming of Christ to a world in need of a savior. As a colleague at work said this week, he'd prefer to call it Incarnation Day instead of Christmas, but he's right in suspecting that won't catch on. While most biblical scholars agree that Jesus wasn't born …
