by mcl | Dec 4, 2017 | Columns, Inspiration, Outside In
By Chris Bates The Gift of One Another There is nothing like a painted dawn in the Mississippi Delta. On the recent opening morning of hunting season, we arrived well before dawn and had time to sit in the quiet for a while and enjoy the earliest moments of the...
by mcl | Nov 1, 2017 | Columns, Inspiration, Outside In
By Chris Bates A Guide for Serving It occurred to me some time ago that there is one thing the Disciples did perhaps more than any other. They walked. They walked from city to city, from one home to another. Several of them walked up to Jesus on the...
by mcl | Oct 1, 2017 | Columns, Inspiration, Outside In
By CHRIS BATES Real Answers for Personal Struggle In early September, I got to spend most of a cool, crystal clear Colorado day trout fishing by myself just above 8,000 feet elevation on the Taylor River. There is something about connecting with nature...
by mcl | Aug 1, 2017 | Columns, Inspiration, Outside In
By Chris Bates Becoming a Spiritual Leader in the Workplace My black Labrador retriever turned to me with that intense gaze to see which direction I would send her for the first retrieve of the morning. In one split second her look conveyed anticipation...
by mcl | Jan 3, 2017 | Columns, Inspiration, Outside In
By Shawn Dean Sweet Sixteen What a disaster I was at sixteen. I couldn’t get enough of AC/DC, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Bud heavy, Marlboro Reds, long hair, and girls. My weekends were full of parties and hangovers. School was a...
by mcl | Aug 4, 2016 | Columns, Inspiration, Outside In
By Shawn Dean I wake up on Monday morning and go to work. I don’t love what I do nor do I hate what I do. It could be much worse and it could be better. Charles Barkley said that he never worked a day in his life…that he always loved what he did and it didn’t seem...
