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There is a massive problem rearing its head in 21st-century American Culture. Men do life alone. They just do. Loneliness and Isolation is eating at us from the inside out. Work has become so cut throat that people are afraid to trust. We are so overextended that we don’t have the time or energy to make friends. We don’t set aside a night or weekend to be together. Individualism has trained us to ...

Me too – sometimes.If you’re like me, it fluctuates. I swing like a pendulum from disengaged and bored with life to feeling like I have a battle to fight and a victory to win. I’ve spent a lot of time recently trying to discern what the pendulum hangs on. I think it has something to do with whether I’m adjusting my life to live into my personal vision statement. Over the years, I have noticed that...

Sometimes you run across a passage in the Bible that is so packed with information that you just have to store it away and chew on it over time. That’s what I found in Proverbs 12 this morning. When Solomon wrote this Proverb, he was contrasting the righteous or upright person with the evil person. He outlines some characteristics of a righteous person.There was so much truth that all I knew to do...

note: any links clicked on in this article are affiliate links and we will get a small commission off your purchases to support the work of ourbestlife.com Our Best Story is about life-on-life discipleship. On helpful analogy is what happened in the Civil War. Soldiers gathered at the Civil War camp and recovered from the days battle as they got ready to fight the following day. One of the key ele...

My wife loves the painting below. It hangs in our kids’ bathroom. Honestly, I never got much out of it, but I think to her it speaks to the innocence of children pre-prejudice. For all of us, it should be a lesson of overcoming social barriers that divide us. Great Question! The last words Jesus left his disciples as he was leaving, was a command to GO!  Go – and make disciples. Where you live. Th...