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  • The Privileged Life: Roses, Canaries, Donkeys…and Other Warnings

    What do roses, canaries, and donkeys have in common? They all serve as alerts to dangers….

  • The Privileged Life: Are You Insignificant? Or a Star?

    “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?” (Psalm 8:3-4) Many days, I feel so insignificant.  That’s because, in the eyes of the world, I am. I’m one little nobody on a…

  • The Privileged Life: Marks of a Good Mentor, Part 3 (In Friendships)

    “As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.” (Proverbs 27:17) All good mentoring relationships either start with friendships…or they turn into friendships.  I’m blessed to have an abundance of Christian friends, from our church and community, from nearby and across the world. Within those overlapping circles are several special friends, however, who keep me accountable…friendships…

  • The Privileged Life: Marks of a Good Mentor, Part 2 (At Work)

    “Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.” (Hebrews 13:17) “Say, Nancy….” I must have heard those words hundreds of times, and they prefaced whatever Chuck…

  • The Privileged Life: Marks of a Good Mentor, Part 1 (Spiritual Leadership)

    “The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. (Titus 2:3-5) I’d love to go hang…