Schlotzsky’s Grapevine, Texas Showing How A Company Can Do The Right Thing Rhonda, my wife, placed an order via the app (something she’s done with great frequency). Location: Grapevine, Texas. Problem: during checkout, the app encountered a problem with her saved credit card requiring that it be re-entered. Done. Order placed. Problem #2: during that […]

Confession: Professionally I’ve allowed life and outside influences to negatively impact me. Being around distracted, fragmented people. I have only myself to blame. Now it’s time to stop, repent and correct my course.  I have too many irons in the fire. I’ve talked about it here. The remedy is simple, but not easy: lower the

Here is an audio – a sermon entitled, “Sin’s Darkness, God’s Light.” The subject is sin, shame and how far sin can take any of us. But the subject is also hope. Hope provided by God in the form of a remedy for our sin problem, Jesus Christ.  Judas Iscariot. He’s likely the first name

Hard questions.  Tough decisions. Well-hidden answers. Our lives are filled with challenges. One of the more common questions people face when pursuing some accomplishment is, “How can I know when to quit?” Enter Seth Godin’s terrific illustration in The Dip. Keep swimming ’cause you don’t know how close you may be to reaching your goal.

Life. It very well may end before I’m done. Odds are fairly strong I think. Not because I know my end time with any certainty. It’s just likely how things go. Here’s my logic. Days end without me having done all I wanted. Or intended. If that’s how days go, what makes me think my

Even if you’re not religious it’s a frightening thought to realize there are humans who lack the ability to feel. Sociopaths and psychopaths scare us. We think of such people as unable to feel. Unable to empathize. But the phrase used by the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Ephesians – “past feeling” –

The Power of Others Podcast – GrowGreat.com Jordan Peterson says here’s how you can know somebody is your friend. 1. You can tell them bad news. And they won’t judge or trump your news. They won’t hijack the conversation. 2. You can tell them good news. And they won’t trump your news with something good that

During the COVID 19 pandemic of 2020, I’ve had so many conversations about this topic that I can’t possibly count them. Or remember them. It started early on. It was March. I think. Opinions were already spewing like a gusher in the early oil boom. I could already tell there was so much we didn’t