My motivational speeches to high-schoolers were different that the others. “You’re not really all that special. If you want to be successful...
At 2:45 a.m. on September 4, 2012, my wife and I arranged for my seventeen-year-old son to be transported to a therapeutic wilderness program in the desert of southern Utah. It seemed to us as...
It’s almost a badge of honor that people wear when they sigh, complain about their busy schedule, and bug out of trying something new or challenging is because they simply “don’t have time.”...
Following in the footsteps of my two older brothers, I started skiing downhill when I was about eight years old. By the time I was a teenager, it had become my passion in life. ...
Without tying ethics to a business curriculum, students are myopic in their decision-making. Stand-alone ethics courses are a start, but they "compartmentalize"...
At his excellent website, Next Reformation, Len Hjalmarson reveals the story of a man who is making a difference in Windsor, Ontario...
As citizens of God’s kingdom, we cannot and should not be shaken by this world and all of its woes, but go...
Ashley and I got married in January. The wedding day was not as restful as we would have liked.
Scotland, Oregon, and the gift shop at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, are only a few of the many places philosopher Steve...
You may recall waking up the morning of December 26, 2004, and learning about the earthquakes triggering the powerful tsunami that swept the coastal areas of Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Many were...
At one of the Missional Church’s most read websites, David Fitch’s Reclaiming the Mission, Cyd Holscaw has written a wonderful article entitled...
When we think of markets, we may conjure up a picture of goods and services production, supply and demand economics, and freedom of exchange. This of course is an accurate depiction, but what...
The first few times I read Jesus’ Parable of the Three Servants, I missed the point entirely. “So the third servant buried his silver in the ground for safekeeping. What’s so terrible about...
What drives employees to be rude? They say they have no time to be nice. Mental overload and stress short-circuit our capacity...
When I go to the bank around the corner, the service is consistently terrible. It doesn’t matter if I park my car and go into the lobby, drive my car to the drive-up...
The people who lived and traveled with Jesus must have been in a state of constant confusion. That guy was so unpredictable...
Many of today's families are incorporating mission statements, weekly meetings, and goal-setting sessions into their lives, with excellent results, says Bruce Heiler...
Moviemaker Bill Nicholson said this. ”Every time we write a story, we’re creating a moral structure that influences the people who see that film. And all these films add up to a sense...
Peter sounds like that eager student hoping—and expecting—to gain approval from the teacher. Peter assumes that all of the other people would...
Recreation, simply put, is the grown-up way of saying “play.” ...
