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...
“. . . welcome him as you would welcome me.” ...
In my late 20s, my job as a camp director consumed me, something I justified by including my wife. Summers we worked...
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...
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...
Recently a colleague, a scientist with no faith background of any kind, asked me a startling question. “What do Christians mean by revelation?” ...
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...
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...
