Welcome to the Blog page! I will use this page to share brief messages, which I hope will be informative, inspirational, and challenging. I will post several messages a month on this page. I also will share some experiences in my ministry opportunities. I would invite any responses to the things posted here. That response could be sent by e-mail at johned@johnedmathison.org. For more information about John Ed Mathison Leadership Ministries, visit our website at www.johnedmathison.org.
A popular exercise at this time of the year is making resolutions for the New Year. Someone shared with me the following four resolutions that could produce a lot of positive results.
WHAT IF, instead of resolving to lose 10 pounds this year, you resolved to eat according to a diet that could sustain the whole [...]
The New Year, 2009, lies before us like a blanket of freshly fallen snow. There are no footprints on it. There are no mistakes yet made. The pathway that we mark in the snow lies before us unblemished.
Someone anonymously wrote the following:
I am the new year. I am an unspoiled page in your book of [...]
We live in a world where so many things are mundane, superficial, shallow, and make-believe. People walk around playing games with each other. We oftentimes are like actors who play out a certain role.
Christmas is about the reality of life. When God invaded the universe and became a child. He came to show us what [...]
Many of us have a tough time managing our time. Businesses are offering some solutions. Timex has come out with a new watch line which produces watches where the hands run backwards. This way you will never get behind on your time. It also gives you an excuse for being late.
I understand that the new [...]
During the time of Advent, a time of preparation for Christmas, I want to share a piece that was written by a friend of mine, Jim Harnish.
“I can still see him bent over beside the pool, his head in his hands, crying in shock and disappointment.
It was the State Championship Swimming Meet. I was there [...]
Two of the names most often heard at Christmas are Santa and Jesus. They represent extremely opposite sides about the meaning of Christmas.
Recently I saw something that was written anonymously comparing Jesus and Santa. Here are twelve distinctions.
1. Santa lives at the North Pole.
Jesus is everywhere!
2. Santa comes only once a year.
Jesus is an ever-present [...]
The world’s economy always requires people to have financial statements. A financial statement requires you to list all of your assets and your liabilities and come to some kind of definitive number about your financial viability.
In 2008, financial statements have diminished tremendously. The value of assets has gone down in dollars that are now measured [...]
During this time of Advent preparation, I want to share with you an incident that a friend of mine, Bishop Joe Pennel, shared.
“I have a friend whose son is a student in a faraway college. This young freshman had not been home since he left in mid-August, but he was expected to return for Thanksgiving. [...]
In the world’s economy, yields fluctuate. Sometimes you get a better yield out of the stock market, and sometimes out of the bond market, and sometimes out of the real estate market. Yields fluctuate.
In the last half of 2008 the fluctuation has primarily been south. Yields are extremely relative. Back in 2007, folks were looking [...]
The world has experienced the greatest revolution in economics during the past two months than it has ever experienced in our history. No one would ever have believed that the stock market could fluctuate 800 points in a day! Who could believe that the great companies like AIG, Lehman Brothers, Merrill-Lynch, and Wachovia would ever [...]