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...
David Grizzle is tall and imposing, a confident man whom people follow naturally. As senior vice president of corporate development at Continental...
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.
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...
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...
“Compromise” is a dirty word to preachers like me. A word search of all the sermons on my laptop computer reveals that...
Holy, Holy, Holy . . . how do we understand such a vast word in the Bible as the word “holy”? It...
At the end of a recent business trip, I was exhausted. I decided to go on an earlier flight and had to take whatever seat was left. When I boarded and found my...
During the last half of the twentieth century, one of the cursed human tragedies was the unjust apartheid system in South Africa. The black majority and its leaders, Nelson Mandela and Desmond...
I always thank God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have been enriched...
Octavian, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, was a successful leader. In 31 B.C., he led the army that defeated Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium.
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When I entered the conference room, one of my colleagues, Johnny, was already there. Johnny was looking at some materials belonging to another coworker, Bruce, who happened to be momentarily absent...
