by ernie | Nov 26, 2020 | Standfast Blog
Tis the season to… sponsor an angel child, send a shoe box of gifts, volunteer at a soup kitchen, gift blankets and jackets and hats… That is, it’s the season for charity. Christmas is a time when we typically thing about people in need. We fill up the red kettles as...
by ernie | Nov 23, 2020 | Standfast Blog
G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” Chesterton was always imminently quotable. His quips and epigrams, axioms and jibes, maxims and platitudes, adages and...
by ernie | Nov 19, 2020 | Standfast Blog
The first Thanksgiving happened over a year after the passengers who traveled aboard the Mayflower made it to the New World. Interestingly enough, the group learned quickly that the affairs of everyday life— things such as laundry and meal preparation— were the most...
by ernie | Nov 16, 2020 | Standfast Blog
No man or woman is an island. There are no successful Lone Rangers—not in business, not in politics, and not in life. Loose canons foil the best strategies. Wild cards trump the best intentions. Feral cells infect the healthiest organisms. Rogue agents jeopardize...
by ernie | Nov 12, 2020 | Standfast Blog
In this episode of the Standfast Cast we continue our conversation from the previous week and discuss WHY the Pilgrims came to the New World in the first place. By the year 1619, after almost a century of tumult and tribulation, two ships received permission to head...
by ernie | Nov 9, 2020 | Standfast Blog
There are numerous ways we can receive criticism. And, guaranteed, all criticism shouldn’t be weighed equally. Here are what several wise leaders have said about criticism and how to handle it. +++++ 1. “Remember, it is not the critic who counts: not the man who...