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Nick Vujicic tells his story. The morning of December 4, 1982, moments after his birth, they laid him in his mother's arms. She held a blunt torso. Her firstborn had no arms or legs.
Charles Lamb once wrote a cynical little poem about work. Listen closely:Who first invented work and bound the free And holy-day rejoicing Spirit down? . . . Sabbath-less Satan. But those words are...
Have you changed jobs or even your profession . . . more than once? You’re not alone.
John D. Rockefeller, with his brother and two others, founded Standard Oil in 1870. By the 1880s, he controlled more than 90 percent of the U.S oil refinery business.What drove Rockefeller—this...
Transcript In 1982, Tom Peters published an instant business classic called In Search of Excellence. I don't know if he coined the term "out of the box," but he certainly thought that way...
The Simon Cowell you know from American Idol also judges a TV show called Britain's Got Talent. During auditions, a Carphone Warehouse manager appeared in a frumpy suit. He timidly announced...
Quarterback Tom Brady of the New England Patriots won three Super Bowls with his team, but that wasn't enough. Speaking on 60 Minutes, he said, "I have three Super Bowl rings, and still I think...
My friend Earl Palmer once visited a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. When it came time to go, he boarded a small plane. The young pilot described what their launch by catapult would feel like.
In the late sixties, Pete Seeger recorded a hit song called "Turn! Turn! Turn!" The words are from the Bible. The third chapter of Ecclesiastes says, "For everything there is a time and...
I don't know about you, but I don't play football anymore. I used to love to play football. But at 62, football is not exactly my thing. I watch the Dallas Cowboys play...
There is a plan, and we are here because we are in the process of surrendering to that plan. And that plan is making you into the poetry of God, the masterpiece of...
In the parable of the talents, Jesus says the people most likely to fail him are the one-talent people. The five- and ten-talent people both did well, but the one-talent man buried his...
I want us to think for a minute about the potential of the ordinary. And to realize with Moses the lesson of the burning bush—that you are in a holy place all day...
Elton Trueblood loved to say that when Jesus told us, "Go into all the worlds and preach the gospel" (Matt. 28:16-20), he did not mean that just geographically. He didn't mean just go...
Bob is a nationally known journalist who once peddled his own column, newspaper by newspaper, to get it syndicated. Whenever he visited new towns or cities, Bob met with the local editors to...
The further I go in the Christian life, the less I'm bored. Christianity is not a way of doing special things. It's...
When Regina Benjamin graduated from med school, and hung her shingle in a poor fishing village, her friends thought she was nuts! ...
Walt Disney said, “Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret,” Walt said, “can...
The famous author and ad man, James D. Woolfe, once told Forbes magazine about his first lesson in job-hunting. ...
During a country church service, a man leapt up and cried, "Lord, use me!" The startled pastor tolerated the outburst and returned to his sermon. ...
