If you are going to do anything well, you must understand it, and the better you understand it the better you will do it. I was a soccer player in high school and college and I was able to learn much about the sport of soccer, but imagine if you tried to play the sport without understanding it. If you didn’t know the rules, you might try to pick the ball up with your hands or tackle your opponent to…
One summer evening when we lived in Plymouth, my family had opportunity to invite over some dear friends to spend some time swimming in the swimming pool shared by our town house association. Now the family we invited over had five children too most of which were almost identical in age to our children; we also had another thing in common, we were both loud. As we enjoyed the evening in the pool, the children of course were using their “outside…
I’ll never forget the time that I was confronted by my pastor for my bad attitude. I’m not sure what I did or said that caused the confrontation, but I was a senior in high school and I remember his asking me to stay behind after some assembly we had and he talked to me about how my attitude was holding me back and that I needed to deal with it. Now how do you suppose I responded? Do you…