Everyone talks about the importance of teamwork, but we often forget the importance of the individual in the workplace.
I knew Wes as a fellow student at Providence Bible Institute in the mid-1940s. To put it bluntly, Weston Taylor was our resident character, an endearing oddball. Although burdened with a variety...
Jesus said to Simon, "From now on you'll be fishing for men and women." They pulled their boats up on the beach, left them, nets and all, and followed him. (Luke 5:11, The...
We often think of successful, creative people as those who chart their own course and advance smoothly along a path that they themselves have determined. While this does happen for a happy few,...
“For Mordecai the Jew was in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was powerful among the Jews and popular with his many kindred, for he sought the good of his people and interceded...
Simple pencil sketches became charcoal drawings. From charcoal, the media evolved to pastels. But watercolor emerged as her true love. While juggling time with her kids, full-time work, widowhood,...
A tourist visited the bell tower of a great cathedral. From a distance, she had heard the bells' glorious music. Inside the tower, instead of music, she heard a cacophony of clanging metal. Instead...
A great storm mercilessly lashes a small island. The clouds pass, and a father and his son walk down to the beach where the sea’s surge has washed tens of thousands of starfish...
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.” Colossians 3:23 What does...
Taking personal initiative at work can have its rewards—but it can also be risky. I’ll always be grateful to one of my...
I was recently having lunch at a fast-food restaurant and happened to watch the busboy clearing and wiping tables. Suddenly he stopped and stared at a glass door across the room. Taking a...
To teach his class about perspective, a journalism professor stood with his nose pressed against the whiteboard. He said: "In a tragedy or a breaking crisis, we are THIS close to the story. We...
Failure comes in many forms—some easier to deal with than others. You take on a challenge at work that turns out to be too much for you to handle. Though your business plan...
At five o'clock each morning, the Benedictine monks of Weston Priory in Weston, Vermont, gather to pray and sing. Like the sun yawning over the horizon, from their rural home, these good men extend...
In the 1970 Tony Award-winning musical Applause, the Broadway cast sings: "What is it that we're living for? Applause! Applause!" The song is repeated periodically throughout the play, leaving no...
Teamwork is more than working together. It's sharing each other's burdens. It's also sharing each other's joys when the time comes to...
"Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment." (1 Tim. 6:6)The teenagers at my church like to play a...
Just a few years ago in Wichita, Kansas, a man known as "the BTK Killer" (bind, torture, kill) was sentenced to 175 years in prison. Dennis Rader listened almost passively as the judge pronounced...
My friend Earl Palmer once visited a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. When it came time to go, he boarded a small plane. The young pilot described what their launch by catapult would feel like.
As head of the Atlanta-based PR consultancy The DeMoss Group, Mark DeMoss trades in right words and good judgment. In The Little...
