Welcome to Welling for your spiritual well-being and your ministry overflowing. We've been in a huge series-- a long one because it is semi-biography, a matter of joyfying life, optimizing trials.  I did not want to only present to you principles not born from life but infused with my own attempt to live out [...]

Welcome to Welling for your spiritual well-being and your ministry overflowing. At a certain period of chronology intersecting with biology, you find that you're resized and reshaped. I noticed that my waist was getting smaller, and my height was shorter, and my clothes were getting too big. And so what I did was send [...]

Welcome to WELLING, for your spiritual being and your ministry overflowing. One of the world's biggest fitness companies is presently unfit. It's on life support. Some have the impression that it has about six months to live, registering six straight quarterly losses. They're cutting costs aggressively. There are major layoffs. They used to sell [...]

Welcome to welling, for your spiritual well-being and your ministry overflowing. Here we are well into the 21st century. And we are trying to live without reference to God. But God keeps sneaking in many, many ways-- in the conscience, in the imagination, even in entertainment on the movies. Recently, there was a [...]

Welcome to Welling, for your spiritual well-being and your ministry overflowing. You have met traders all over the world, as I have. They come in all kinds, as merchants, as dealers. They buy and sell all kinds of things, material things, financial instruments, anything that can be traded, people trade, even trade in people.  [...]

Welcome to welling, for your spiritual well-being and your ministry overflowing. Vision for Trials. That's the name of this episode, "A Vision for Trials." Athletes don't stretch prepare for the sake of stretch preparation. They prepare for the sake of running the race. Any athlete knows how to differentiate between ordinary stretches and extraordinary [...]

Welcome to Welling for your spiritual well-being and ministry overflowing. These are simple talks for thoughtful reflection and then intentional execution and application in your life.  This talk is on maximizing benefits. Salesmen are both untrustworthy and trustworthy. A salesmen went to the doctor and says, would you please help me stop talking to [...]

Welcome to Welling for your spiritual well-being and your ministry overflowing. I really want to be very productive, said a man, but I keep being distracted by two things-- anything and everything.  Have you ever felt like that, where busyness is equated with activity? And so an entire industry of productivity apps has emerged, [...]

Welcome to welling for your spiritual well-being and your ministry overflowing. Have you ever heard the announcement, this is a test.  Just like those announcements or tests, we face announcements of tests in our lives. Those announcements are messages, which truly get our attention. They have a large geographic footprint. They interrupt life. Trials [...]

Welcome to Welling for your spiritual well-being and your ministry overflowing. I want to start today with pizza logic. You know pizza was a favorite of my grandkids and my son's family, Italian bread, usually round, it's sort of dough, wheat based.  And I like the toppings much better than the bread, tomatoes, cheese, [...]

Welcome to Welling for your spiritual well-being and your ministry overflowing. Joy Counter.  When I hear the word "trials," I primarily hear Olympic trials and track and field.  All countries are allowed to enter a maximum of three athletes into any of the track-and-field events in the Olympics, as long as those three athletes have achieved [...]

Welcome to Welling, for your spiritual well-being and your ministry overflowing. I'm the oldest of three brothers. We know the firstborn in the family is the original version, and the others are all sequels-- number two, three, four-- and the two, three, four, are never as good as the original. Of course, the retort [...]