Do nothing out of selfish ambition, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to...
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...
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...
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 (NIV) ...
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)...
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...
A dear friend of mine is a lawyer in a large city. He and his partner are both serious Christians, and they...
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...
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....
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...
