by Rick | Oct 22, 2013 | Blog
The sign of the Market Farm Eatery along the Coral Gables, Florida, street said, “Hungry? Stop Here!” I was their kind of customer: hungry. I had missed lunch and it was late in the evening so I pulled along a side street and jumped out of my rental car. I crossed the...
by Rick | Oct 18, 2013 | Blog
“There are a lot of people in the church upset with you and they want you fired,” the voice on the phone told me, “and since I’m the chairman of the board, I need to let you know that.” Well that kept me up all night for a week. I was a young pastor and had just led...
by Rick | Oct 15, 2013 | Blog, Inspirational
I always assumed the Green Revolution started in California where all the health-conscious folks were trying to figure out what to do about smog in L.A. As it turns out, the Father of the Green Revolution grew up in Iowa. Dr. Norman Borlaug, the man who is...
by Rick | Oct 11, 2013 | Blog, Huggable Heroes
I met Santiago in a rural village of Nicaragua. He was the kind of person whose smile unlocks a part of your heart and wanders in without any formal invitation. Yet when he gets there, it feels like he’s home and has belonged there all the time. Villagers there have a...
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by Rick | Oct 8, 2013 | Blog
Walk on any college or professional football field and you can pick out the linemen and the quarterbacks. Not only by the numbers on their jerseys, but by their size. Quarterbacks and linemen are not interchangeable; you only frustrate them and jeopardize team...
