The Power of Love
There is no weapon more powerful than love. There is no force more omnipotent than love. With love, a sheep can calm the wrath of a lion. Love has the power to break every chain. The greatest and the most powerful show their strength through love. They flex their...
Great Tools For Bible Study
Have you ever wondered what tools you need to have in your Bible study arsenal so that you can study God's word effectively? This new year, I would like to share with you tools recommended by Servants University to do just that. Until I started seminary school, I did...
The Curse of Wisdom
A lot of people desire to be wise and discerning. Many of us want to have the kind of wisdom that enables us to see things ahead of our time and to discern what will happen when everybody else cannot yet see it. No doubt that is a very good gift. However, it comes...
Posttraumatic Growth
We know all about posttraumatic stress disorder. We hear about it often. The pain is deep, far-reaching, life-altering, and for some people, it lasts a long time. Bad things are guaranteed to happen, even to good people. What do you do after a catastrophic event hits...
Leaders Give First and Go First
In this post, Dr. Acha shares from his personal struggles and triumphs as a leader. While he was still in medical school, he started a nonprofit orphan care ministry and it was incredible difficult! He need finances to help push projects forward, but he was a...
Everybody has an Agenda
It's the presidential election year here in the U.S. We are only a couple of months away from election day. If you turn on your TV to find the news, you will most likely get one of three kinds of agendas. Liberal agenda - From CNN, MSNBC, etc. Conservative agenda -...
It’s difficult, but I can do it
Recently, I had a very moving encounter with a patient with acute respiratory distress secondary to COPD exacerbation. My intern (let's call her Patricia), had just told me James' history (not his real name), physical exams, labs, imaging, and assessment and plan....
Newsletter #005 – Setting Yourself Apart
When we get busy, it's easy for us to forget who we are. We can easily derail and move off the path of our calling into doing things that we haven't been created to do. The articles for this week's Newsletter will empower you to redirect if you have gone off course a...
Can you have more than one calling for your life?
This is a very common question that I have gotten many times. And the simple answer to that is, YES. But the answer requires explanation. As children, we are asked, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" And almost always, the adults asking this question expect us...