I had taught regular and honors English in Texas Public schools for several years. My regular English students were smart kids, but...
Author Leigh McLeroy has a passion for God and a keen eye for His presence in everyday life. Her career has taken...
Competition is a fact of life, and it's everywhere you look: in athletics, business, academics . . . politics. We compete institutionally...
Jed’s revelation came while sitting in front of the TV one Friday morning, his trusty java in one hand, the remote in the other. CNN featured the trial of a man accused of...
Sitting on my private tuffet, I got a little huffy when I heard the news.The director looked me straight in the eye, smiled a breezy smile, and said, "Oh, and don't forget to...
But now more than ever the word about Jesus spread abroad; many crowds would gather to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. But he would withdraw to deserted places and...
All summer I watched the building progress from the demolished shell of an old department store to a modern, gleaming beacon for shoppers everywhere: a new Nordstrom. And a mere five minutes from...
There's a thin line between perseverance and stubbornness. Where you eventually land depends on the outcome—if you fail you were just stubborn...
Jim Collins' Good to Great metaphor has much to say to us as we discover our gifts, talents, and our day-to-day vocation. The truth is, God has created us as multifaceted creatures with interests...
Many occupations don't guarantee Sundays off. I happen to work in the maritime industry, and I'm here to tell you cargo ships...
Sometimes our work is threatened by external conditions. But often the dangers come from within; we can become our own worst enemies and unintentionally sabotage our own efforts with slipshod...
"Nothing is impossible with God," says the angel Gabriel to Mary, the young woman whom God had chosen to bear his Son (Luke 1:37). Mary needed encouragement. The angel had just told her that:she...
How can it be that those who lived with Jesus for three years—hearing every word he taught and seeing every miracle—could betray, deny, and abandon him? It must be that past reliance on...
It's a cliché in business circles that there's no "I" in "team." Whenever I hear this, I want to respond, "Yes, but without the individuals, there would be no team." I'm still left...
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...
