Fifty years ago, as a twelve-year-old, I was in a Japanese Prison Camp in Northern China. The year was 1944. It was winter, bleak, freezing cold. And we had very little coal dust...
In 1989, Peter Jennings pulled Peggy Wehmeyer out of local television in Dallas to join ABC World...
Jane manages a small business of ten employees. Recently she told our small group that one of her employees, Robert, was distracted and making costly mistakes. His oversights were affecting morale...
Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men. Col. 3:23This verse raises three basic questions: 1) What is your work? 2) What is your motivation to work? 3) Whom do...
To continue to mature, the lobster must lose his old shell and grow a new one. For two days, the lobster is totally vulnerable.
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if anyone with...
Hugo F. Sonnenschein, president of the University of Chicago, tells an inspiring story about Professor Martin Marty. At a White House ceremony to award Marty the National Humanities Medal,...
• In early January 2006, a veteran columnist at the Baltimore Sun newspaper stepped down for presenting other writers’ work as his own. ...
David Grizzle is tall and imposing, a confident man whom people follow naturally. As senior vice president of corporate development at Continental...
Across the desk from me, in his office, Patrick’s eyes rarely met mine. My attempts to listen to him were constantly distracted by his nervously bobbing knees and tapping fingers. He talked...
Under a God and Business cover story headline, Fortune magazine reported in 2001 that a “groundswell of believers” is breaching “the last...
It was the end of a hard week, and I was trying to remain professional and composed as I presented the facts about our team’s workload. Across the table, my boss, Jerry, couldn’t...
In the slave cabins of the antebellum South, in the gulags of Russia, and in the house churches of China, believers have kept their priorities straight. Highly stressful situations are like that....
The governor of North Carolina once called Thomas Edison a great inventor. But Mr. Edison resisted the title. He said, “I am not a great inventor.” ...
Some people are by nature team players and others are not. I belong to the second group. I lack the skills of...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian who was involved in the German resistance movement against Hitler and the Nazis during World War II. In April 1943, Bonhoeffer was arrested....
On May 19, 1780—in the anxious days of the American Revolution—darkness fell at noon. Bats flew. Chickens roosted. The day abruptly lost all sunlight and many believed the world was ending.
I was fuming. A 30-minute task was well into an hour-and-a-half, and I still hadn’t worked through all the piles. ...
Staring out across the barren landscape stretching beyond the dashboard, I could almost see them—covered wagons carrying settlers in search of California gold. How had they ever made it? I...
Does it seem odd to you that one of the strongest freedom sentences in the New Testament also becomes one of the strongest obligation sentences? St. Paul put it this way: “Owe no...
