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I heard a man in a church who had really hurt someone try to confess his sin with these words: “I’m sorry if I’ve done something to upset you.” That sounds like an apology to get someone off your back. Let me tell you, if you don’t really apologize, it’s only a matter of timeContinueContinue reading “Confession killers”

Knowing how often I have felt like a misfit, especially during the Christmas holidays, I am happy to recommend Brant Hansen’s new book Blessed are the Misfits. Now a popular radio host and living in Harrisburg, PA, Hansen is an introvert who grew up as a preacher’s kid here in the Midwest.  He is aContinueContinue reading “Lots of us feel like a “Misfit”, especially during the holidays!”

My good friend Pastor John Piippo really gets it when considering information and wisdom. There is a big difference. Good words, John, for news junkies like me. I’ll let him tell you how he differentiates between information & wisdom …  

My friend pastor Chuck Carlson said farewell on Sunday (October 15) to the folks at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Champaign.  He served at the Church 11 years, but he was also concluding 43 years of full-time service in the ministry. Chuck is a wonderful man, a fine pastor, a thoughtful preacher.  Chuck and Betty,ContinueContinue reading “The cross is the way of Jesus”

Every morning I ask myself a few questions in what attorney and church reconciliation guru Ken Sande calls the S.O.G. Plan. How am I feeling and acting? (practicing my own self-awareness) How are others around me feeling? How am I affecting them? (practicing being other-aware) What is God up to? (practicing being God-aware) I amContinueContinue reading “A healthy daily practice”

12 September 2017 Hello class members of “Soul Work – doing the unseen work in a leader’s life!” Welcome aboard… I am looking forward to being with you and journeying alongside you on Tuesday afternoons this fall. We start Tuesday, September 19 at 1:30pm, meeting at Stone Creek Church, 2502 So. Race Street, Urbana, IL atContinueContinue reading “Soul Work class starts September 19th: Plans/notes/agenda”

Don Follis August 27, 2017 Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette Religion Column (In my Sunday column, I mention 11 things I wish someone had told me when I was younger. After I read the column, though, I thought of many more, and I thought that I probably was, in fact, told about many of these. But alas, lifeContinueContinue reading “What you wish someone had told you when you were younger”

This is just outside the north gate of White tanks cemetery, a Maricopa County-run cemetery, the final resting place of hundreds of indigent souls, most of whom have died in the last 15 years in metro-Phoenix, Arizona.   One of hundreds of grave markers (the size of a coffee table coaster)  in barren White TanksContinueContinue reading “Conversation in the desert cemetery brought real clarity”