Every year, millions of people around the globe resolve to lose weight, live healthier lifestyles, quit smoking, continue their education, develop their relationships, and more. Creating resolutions for a new year is a tradition with which most of us are familiar. Yet more often than not, people fail to achieve their goals. You fail to [...]

Our society conditions us to be obsessed with numbers. Online we pour over the number of our Twitter followers, over the number of friends that we can claim on Facebook, at the number of RSS subscribers on our blogs, and about the number of visitors on a webpage. Offline we obsess over the amount of cash in [...]

A few years ago, a then pre-teen me sat in the back of my parent’s car on my way home from school, tears steadily streaming down my face. I hadn’t had a bad day, in fact I’d had a normal, enjoyable day at school. My parents asked “Jasmine, what’s wrong, are you ok?” and I [...]

Recently I’ve been noticing a sad trend among leaders. They’re actually calling for their followers to faithfully pursue mediocrity. I’m seeing this trend in churches, in corporate environments and in relationships. Mediocre faithfulness in church. In church they teach us not to focus on the results of our efforts to reach people but rather to [...]

We live in a society plagued with selfishness. I’m selfish. You’re selfish. I live and work in the outskirts of Washington DC. The last report that I heard stated that our area has the third worst traffic in the nation. I know what it means to experience and see road rage. Every day something will [...]