Friday is typically date night for me and my wife. But after another intense week it’s painfully difficult to slow down and simply be present. Sadly, I can be a poor date. Could this be how Christ and our pastor feel about us on Sundays? With hectic schedules, 100 channels, 24-hour news, Facebook, Twitter, and [...]
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A Better Date
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Relevant Ministry, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life, Connecting, legitimacy, love, Purpose, Valuable life goal on August 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yes, I’m Addicted
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Evolving Culture, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, community, Connecting, connection, Consumerism, Hope, Valuable life goal on June 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m an addict. I must confess. Maybe you are as well? I took the Father’s Day challenge and unhooked from the web all day Sunday. I even let my smart phone battery go dead. And it was, well…lonely. For 24 hours I lost connection with all my on-line chatter. No news, Facebook, email, text messages, [...]
Father’s Day Challenge
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Evolving Culture, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Leadership, love, Purpose, Valuable life goal on June 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Media consultant Phil Cooke reports that the research has been done and the verdict is in (though we hardly needed it to tell us): We are hopelessly addicted to our digital devices. So much so, in fact, that some psychologists are pushing to have “Internet Addiction” broadly classified as a clinical disorder. Take a look [...]
Taking Risks
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life, Connecting, connection, Consumerism, Evolving Culture, Faith, Hope, Leadership, love, missional, Purpose, Relevant Ministry, Valuable life goal on May 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Ten months ago, we met our 12-year-old daughter in China. We were scared and overwhelmed but driven by the vision that we were being called to stretch beyond our own comfort. Francis Chan’s words were ringing in our ears: God hasn’t called us to comfort. We’re called to take big risks so that if He [...]
A Careful Man
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, clarity, communication, Empowering Leadership, Hope, Leadership, love, Purpose, trust, Valuable life goal, vision on March 18, 2011 | 17 Comments »
My dad passed away last night. He suffered from Alzheimer’s and deteriorated rapidly over the past few weeks. It was a blessing to have my mom and all eight of us kids around his bed as his breathing grew slower and slower. It was a special time as we told stories and sang old hymns [...]
Danger Love
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Empowering Leadership, Relevant Ministry, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life, Connecting, connection, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Faith, Hope, legitimacy, love, missional, Missional Ministry, trust on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Li Mei is a 16-year-old orphan here in Guangzhou that nobody ever came for. She’s now too old to be adopted and is no longer eligible for government support. An Indiana couple we’ve gotten to know met her on one of their previous adoption trips and have introduced her to an American missionary here. The [...]
The Most Important Person
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life, communication, Connecting, Consumerism, Faith, Hope, Leadership, legitimacy, love, Purpose, trust, Valuable life goal, vision on July 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Pastor and sociologist Tony Campolo explains the concept of “The Looking Glass Self” like this: We see ourselves as we believe the most important person in our life sees us. Tony tells us that if we make Christ the most important person in our life and recognize that he loved us enough to die a [...]
Dad’s Maxims For Success
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Empowering Leadership, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life on June 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’m grateful my dad left us so many guiding thoughts. Most important, he pointed us back to Christ first. These maxims for success from him continue to influence our thinking decades after he shared them: When someone says something cannot be done, he is only saying that he cannot do it. When someone does something [...]
Gotcha!
Posted in Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, Evolving Culture, Faith, Hope, legitimacy, love, Purpose, Valuable life goal on June 18, 2010 | 10 Comments »
We found out yesterday that our “Gotcha Date” is July 12th. That’s the date we actually pick up our new 12-year-old daughter in China. “But why the term Gotcha?” I asked Sara Lang at Madison Adoption. Sara explained that at age 14 the Chinese government considers orphans adults, which terminates their availability for adoption as [...]
The Little Chap
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life on May 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I spent this past week on Hilton Head Island enjoying our annual family vacation. I was thirty years old when we first vacationed there in 1987. It has become our family destination and it’s hard to believe our tribe has grown to 18. We have a great time of beach walking, ultimate frisbee, ice cream [...]
A Great Mom
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks Annette for your vision and passion. You’re leaving a remarkable fingerprint on each of us. As a teenager I appreciated the lyrics of the Cat Stevens song, “Hard Headed Woman.” Little did I know then how authentically they’d reflect your impact on us today: I’m looking for a hard headed woman, one who will [...]
Trusting He’ll Come Through
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life, love, Missional Ministry, vision on May 2, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Last Friday my wife and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary. Well, we didn’t really celebrate it. In fact, I had forgotten it until my sister emailed with congratulations. I quickly called Annette and in my sweetest voice crooned, “Happy anniversary baby.” She had forgotten too. I expected life to be different at 52. I [...]
Reflection And Wisdom
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, Evolving Culture, Hope, Leadership, legitimacy, love, Relevant Ministry, trust on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I recently read that we learn wisdom three ways: 1. by reflection, which is noblest; 2. by imitation, which is easiest; 3. by experience, which is the bitterest. I’ve always aspired to nobility so here’s my reflection on lessons learned from 2009: We need a deeply anchored faith when culture and values are shifting rapidly…seek [...]
There Is Something More
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life, building momentum, communication, Connecting, Faith, Hope, love, Purpose, trust, Valuable life goal on December 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Christmas holidays remind us that there is something more to life. And no matter how discouraging the year may have been, through our faith and our families we can begin all over again. William Saroyan, an American writer, tells how our families help us do so: Of course if you like your kids, if [...]
It’s A Wonderful Life
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, tagged Bahler Family Doing Life, Empowering Leadership, Leadership, Purpose, Relevant Ministry, trust on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With 9/11 to kick it off and an ugly recession to close it out, Time magazine recently called this the “Decade From Hell.” Despite all this, I just had a Jimmy Stewart Wonderful Life moment today. I scheduled lunch with Chris, an employee I hired out of college in 1988. He worked for us as [...]
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