There are always a lot of numbers floating around in life. At their base, they are simply numbers, but we like to assign important through random metrics to things. Today four number on my radar are 49, 50, 3, and 5. Allow me to elaborate… Yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday in America. Millions of people…

Yesterday we lost #Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash. The news was shocking and sad. Although I had never met him, although I had never actually watched him play in person, although my only real knowledge of him was through a video screen, I still felt impacted by his death. Many people around the world…

Listen, this is the Minister Of Mocha, so you just know that every day begins with coffee. I take mine black, but some folks put a splash of milk in theirs. Today I had a mishap at Starbucks and wound up dumping my coffee on my lap and the floor. Good thing it was hot!…

Sometimes we need to shed some tears. I’m the kind of guy that cries at almost anything. Take me to a movie, and there’s a good chance I’ll get choked up. My kids make fun of me because the movie Miracle made me cry. In case you don’t know, it’s a movie about hockey. So I…

Sometimes I wake up with a song or a thought in my head. Today, it’s a thought that keeps rattling through my mind. Let me step back for a moment. Starting at about 10 o’clock last night, I began having a spasm in my left ear drum. It was a maddening fluttering noise and feeling…

It’s Christmas time again. As I write, we are sitting on a rainy Christmas Eve Eve (the day before the day before Christmas for those of you keeping score at home). I’m wishing everyone a “Joseph Christmas” (because Mary has been getting top billing for a couple of millennia)! I’m thinking about tradition and such…

Wow, I’ve been a bit lazy of late. Sometimes I get in to a rut and just start moving through life on auto-pilot. That kind of thing happens all the time, and it happened to your MoM. As I put my head down to power through the holiday season I just got caught up in…

The team that I follow in English soccer has been having a bad year. Things have been slowly deteriorating for months and it finally reached the point where the owners decided that it was time to sack the head coach. A new coach was appointed and fans throughout the world celebrated a new beginning. The…

Last week one of my favorite people was taken to the hospital. My mother in law was experiencing trouble breathing. At 92, this was a big concern. We made a decision that it would be good for my wife to go home to help out. That means that I will be spending Thanksgiving without my…

Recently I was discussing the idea of mistakes and forgiveness with my #PrisonFellowshipAcademy class. We noticed a pattern with King David in the Book of Psalms: sin, repent, repeat. At the end of class I asked each student to bring in a Psalm to discuss with the class. Most of my students did what I…