Let’s begin with a true story from the western highlands of Guatemala. It is January 1996 in a country that has been torn apart by 36 years of civil war. Violence has become infectious, an...
Golfing legend Gary Player famously said, "The more I practice, the luckier I get." Excellence has everything to do with the blessing of God, or what others might call "luck." Excellence also has...
My wife Pat and I moved to England nine years ago, so I could pursue my Ph.D...
Leaders have convinced themselves that leadership comes from the top. Just as often it comes from the bottom. A case in point. ...
My daughter, Amy, a high school senior, was approaching the runway for her final pole vault attempt, and I was having a flashback. Four years earlier, when she was a freshman, Amy was...
Every person has influence: fathers and moms influence their kids; managers influence their employees; church leaders influence their members. The danger is...
His name was identifiably Dutch—Tilstra, maybe . . . Kevin Tilstra. Out of two thousand high school students at a high school...
At fourteen, I took on a twice-a-day paper route that was demanding and dangerous. Though it included my own quiet residential street, it also included a stretch of a busy U.S. highway spiked...
Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.” (John 21:3) ...
In my late 20s, my job as a camp director consumed me, something I justified by including my wife. Summers we worked...
“. . . welcome him as you would welcome me.” ...
Most research scientists follow the academic track. Not Dr. John Medina. This graphics designer and animator turned teacher, scientist, and consultant says...
A burning bush would be nice. Moses got one, and he wasn’t even a nice guy. He was on the lam at the time, running from a murder rap back in Egypt. So...
The second chapter of Mark contains a fascinating story about four people who brought their paralyzed friend to Jesus in hopes that...
Patience is not a natural virtue for modern men and women—not on the freeway, in line, or in the workplace. Why ever wait on others or delay our own plans? ...
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...
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?” ...
