Luci Swindoll’s mission statement comes from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and she’s pleased to recite it: There is...
This is what the LORD says—he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen...
Today, 50 percent of law school graduates and 60 percent of accounting graduates are women. Twenty-five years ago, the glass ceiling was...
I think back to my early days in the corporate world. How I yearned for a management role. My vision of a leader was freedom from being told what to do and when...
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they...
Recently a colleague, a scientist with no faith background of any kind, asked me a startling question. “What do Christians mean by revelation?” ...
Do nothing out of selfish ambition, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to...
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 (NIV) ...
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in...
When I was a 28-year-old publicist at a publishing company, my boss said to me, "You'll never make it in public relations, you're too goody-goody." But I disagreed. Then and there I determined to...
The creation story says that humankind was created in God’s image and immediately assigned a task: “Let them have dominion” (Gen. 1:26–28)...
A dear friend of mine is a lawyer in a large city. He and his partner are both serious Christians, and they...
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. ...
