As an addendum to this week’s sermon on faithfulness, today’s post is taken mostly from the my book, The Life God Honors.  The foreword was written by my friend, Brian Blair, of The Republic Newspaper.  He writes: “When I first began watching ESPN’s Sports Center a few years ago, the NBA highlight reels transfixed me. The nightly wrap-ups featured more dunking than an Oreo cookies-and-milk extravaganza.  Since I was...

As a follow up to this Sunday’s sermon, I want to share a true story with you. In the sermon I talked about my father and his standards of excellence in his chosen field of tuning and restoring pianos.  What I did not mention is that he learned those skills from a blind man. At the age of 12, my father, Bob Robbins, was hired by a blind piano tuner and taught the craft.  Now, I learned some of that craft from my father as a teenager, and...

In yesterday’s sermon I spoke of the power of attitude.  Here’s an important addition to the discussion. It is in your power to choose your attitude.  Many people think that their circumstances dictate their attitudes, but this is not true.  You are a creature with amazing God-given power to choose your thoughts, attitudes, and even emotions.  Yes, thoughts, attitudes and emotions will come and go, but to simply give in to whatever...