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The most popular entertainer in Las Vegas is Danny Gans. Danny's a singer, comedian, and impressionist. His shows pack people into the twelve-hundred-seat theater that bears his name. Although...
Stanley Marcus finished college and was working in the family department store. A customer in a small Texas town wrote to request baby ducks—Easter gifts for his sons. Young Mr. Marcus priced...
Educated in London and living a life of privilege, Christiane, along with her family, fled Iran in 1979 after the fall of the Shah, and she was forced to support herself. So she studied journalism...
Peggy Wehmeyer, of the World Vision Report, recently interviewed Ryan Hreljac. When he was six, Ryan cried after hearing that African children had no wells for fresh drinking water. By age nine...
Are you willing to offer up what you do every day as a prayer to God?
In his book, Lucky Man, actor Michael J. Fox tells the story of his battle with Parkinson's disease. Just after surgery to still the tremors in his left hand, he noticed new tremors...
I was 14 when I made my first speech without using notes.
Major Applewhite was starting quarterback at the University of Texas. As a sophomore, he was Big 12 co-offensive player of the year. He held or shared 40 school records. Yet Major Applewhite...
Author Roger Kahn wrote The Boys of Summer and other sports best-sellers, but he hated the “sportswriter” tag. One day, Kahn was sent to interview the famous writer Robert Frost, who said exactly...
Remember the story of Joseph, the spoiled son—sold into slavery, who became the number two leader of all Egypt, the model business manager? As a young slave, Joseph soon oversaw his master’s...
What does it really mean to exercise "dominion"?
Why are we called to "be fruitful and multiply"?
God's original call to people to work occurred in Genesis.
Because of the fall, our work is even more important to God's plan for the world.
In what is called the Table of Nations, Genesis 10 traces first the descendants of Japheth (Gen. 10:2-5), then the descendants of...
The Lord gives detailed instructions for setting up the tent of meeting, the location of his presence with Israel. The tent of...
The Book of Esther begins with King Ahasuerus (known to history outside the Bible as Xerxes) throwing a lavish party to display...
Book 4 begins with the somber Psalm 90. “You turn us back to dust…our years come to an end like a sigh”...
God executes justice for the oppressed (Ps. 146:7a). So do we, when we work according to God’s commandments, by God’s grace. God gives food to the hungry (Ps 146:7b). So do we. God...
Work is the core activity explored in Ecclesiastes. It is generally called “toil,” (Heb. amal) which indicates the hardship of work. The...