Daily Challenges Archive

One of these people makes me tired just to watch. Seeing someone work hard to pretend to have a wealthy lifestyle while juggling debt is stressful for me to watch. It has to be even more stressful to live that way. Certain careers tend to lend the...

You may not know these names: Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. If you follow world affairs, you most certainly do. Without making a political statement, these two billionaires have spent many days circling the globe, working with leaders of hostil...

You’ve probably heard the old saying that you never see a U-Haul being pulled by a hearse. You can’t take it with you.I had a conversation with a good man the other day. We were discussing life and, as both of us have lost our wives, how we finish...

Who in the world winks? I have to admit, none of my friends wink, certainly not at me or in my presence. There is something about a person who does that that is a bit suspect. Any time I’ve witnessed winking, it usually implied an inside joke or s...

There was a book and then a movie called Dead Man Walking about the life of death-row inmate Matthew Poncelet, who was befriended by Sister Mary Prejean. The phrase “dead man walking” started in American prisons. Guards used it to announce that a ...

I love hunting with good friends. My first hunting experience was riding on the hood of my friends car along the power lines in a new development and shooting doves (maybe pigeons). Okay, that sounds like a stupid idea, even at 15 years old. Every...

I love the challenge Solomon gives us to guard his teachings. In thinking through how we do that, he immediately tells us a few ways in the next couple of verses: bind them to yourself. “Bind” is a strong description of connecting in a powerful an...

Carefully examine. That’s a concept I need to practice more. God doesn’t miss a thing. When we confess our sin, it is not a surprise to Him. He knows. That confession is mostly a revelation in our own hearts that we need reconciliation with God an...

History records that Solomon’s son and David’s grandson, Rehoboam, is a great example of someone who did not listen to his parent or to wise counsel. He listened to bad counsel and ended up splitting the kingdom. He also died at 58. By any standar...

As a minister for the last 50 years (I started at 2 years old ), I have lived with the responsibility to keep people’s confidential conversations confidential. In some cases, even after death. Before I share a story in a teaching setting, I always...

In yesterday’s verse, Solomon talked about those who listened to instruction and then did what is right, just, and fair. These concepts were vital to his belief in living as a follower of God. It seems that these traits are second nature for some ...

I’ve never met an angry or selfish person who was in the midst of doing what was right, just, and fair. It is difficult at those times to be anything other than kind. I know there are exceptions to that statement; however, they are the exception. ...