Can Your Mess Be Your Message?

Like Moses, I have often said to the Lord, “Who am I, Lord, to challenge other grandparents to follow You and disciple the next generations? After all, look at me. There’s so much messy stuff in my life. Maybe someone else would be better qualified.” Have you ever...

It’s Just a Different Generation!

The generation gap so much discussed in the 60’s is still alive and well. I often hear stereotypical comments from each of the younger and older adult generations. For example, it’s common to hear someone from an older generation say, “The younger generation is so...

False Assumptions

John Stonestreet, Senior Content Advisor for Summit Ministries and Fellow with the Chuck Colson Center of Christian Worldview, commented recently that the older generations need to “get over the barrier that younger generations don’t want to hear what you have to...

Great Cloaks of Fire!

I recently wrote about NOT passing the baton since as long as we are alive we are still in the race. Passing the baton can be a useful metaphor for passing on a legacy, but perhaps a more appropriate metaphor might be passing the mantle. My good friend, Leona...

Trust: The Generational Link

We were sitting on our bunk beds at a men’s retreat—several younger men in their 30’s, and a handful of us in our 50’s and 60’s. We had just finished a session with our retreat speaker. Now we were supposed to begin interacting with each other even though most of us...

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