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Cars of the Second Chance
As I was washing my car last night, I couldn’t help but acknowledge a few similarities between my motor vehicle and the Christian life. Here were a few thoughts that swam around my head: Seasoned cars resemble seasoned lives. No matter how hard you clean and scrub the outside, to beautify and to purify, the...
Thoughts From My Barber (Part 2 of 2)
Read Part 1 of this article here. I hadn’t been to get my hair cut, in an actual shop, for several years. I’ve been so accustomed to grabbing the electric razor and buzzing my head with a number two extension that I really haven’t felt the need to get it cut professionally. Cutting your own...
Thoughts From My Barber (Part 1 of 2)
A few days ago I sat in a barber chair waiting in line to get my hair (what little of it I still have) cut. The hairstylist was running solo so there were a few of us waiting in line. Normally I wouldn’t have waited as long as I did, but the conversation brewing between...
Gifts In Disguise
After we moved to Dayton to start a church, I became consumed with keeping the thing afloat. I threw myself into the task, working insane hours to make this dream of mine happen. Let me underscore the words dream of mine. My life during that period resembled the scene in Gulliver’s Travels where the six-inch-tall...
8 Pricing Tips to Reap Higher Donations
Donation-based organizations care about pricing just as much as their for-profit counterparts. Since non-profits generally aim to serve as many customers as possible, many suggest, but don’t require, that their customers offer donations. However, a mission to serve as many customers as possible is balanced by the need to collect revenues to improve services. This...
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