If you've been around long enough, you've encountered temptation, trial, and tragedy in your life. It's no coincidence that the very first chapter of human history includes all three: temptation entered the world, trial followed the yielding to that temptation, and from that moment forward, the human experience has been marked by tragedy. But God used the ultimate tragedy to provide a permanent solution to our trials and temptations. The same pattern that brought destruction

A friend of mine has a son who's a senior in high school, and this young man loves football with a passion. So when an injury sidelined him recently, his world felt like it was crashing down on him. After a preliminary exam, the doctor delivered what felt like a death sentence: he was concerned this young man would never play football again. No official tests had been run yet. No comprehensive evaluation completed. Just a quick look and a devastating opinion that a seventeen-

Perfectionism stems from shame. The educational philosophy of our modern society is to scold and shame children when they make a mistake. Because most of us adults have gone through the school system, this philosophy carries into business as well. If you make a mistake, you get in trouble. You are shamed so many times for making a mistake that you develop intense anxiety about “getting it wrong” which leads to perfectionism. Perfectionism says, “If I get it wrong, bad things

There are seeds we plant in our own lives with our actions--that’s something I’ve talked about quite a bit in our blogs on the Law of Compounding. But what about the seeds you plant in others with your words and actions? Are you planting seeds of shame, perfectionism, or volatility? Or are you planting seeds of repentance, acceptance, and love? I had to process a lot of things from my childhood with my Head Coach (counselor), Twila. One of those things was that when I was ver