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This morning I discovered that my newsletters have not been appearing on this site. This is a goof-up someplace and my super-savy techie friends are working to get it fixed. But, in the meantime, I have posted the newsletters that did not get posted and will enter them manually in the future until we get them going automatically again. 

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Amost everybody knows that November 9, 2009 is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. I have been to Europe a number of times - I even lived there for a while on two occasions - but a few days ago I made my first visit to Berlin. My wife and I were hosted by Ingo Tophoven who is one of our PhD students in counseling at Regant...

Here's an interesting idea from the October 2009 Harvard Business Review. A recent study found that nearly one-third of adults who work at least 30 hours a week have fallen asleep or become extremely drowsy on the job. Whenever we need sleep some basic skills start to slide including visual discrimination, alertness, performance effectiveness...

Can you remember the sermon from last Easter Sunday? This year we attended our daughter's church on Easter where the sermon, at most, was ten minutes long.  The message was concise and to the point: the Resurrection of Jesus is all about changing lives both for now and for eternity.

The message stuck because it was preceded by the words of a...

This month, new cycling machines were brought into the fitness club where I work out.  They record the rider’s heart rate, calories, distance travelled and cycling speeds. But the new machines do more. They give us opportunity to select a...

I published my first book in the fall of 1969 and I’ve been connected with the publishing industry ever since. I’ve written and published almost 60 books, was general editor for a series of 42 Christian Counseling books published by Word, and have...