Farmers Need to Pause and Sharpen Their Blades

Gordon MacDonald writes in "Cut and Sharpen”:

Once, when my wife, Gail, and I were hiking the high meadows of the Swiss Alps, we saw two farmers ...

Young Boy Feels the Pain of His Father's Emotional Absence

Steve Smith writes in “The Jesus Life”:

One of the deepest memories I have of my father is when we would have breakfast together. We'd ...

Honest Feedback Restores a Leader

Bob Merritt, pastor of the Eagle Brook Church in Minnesota, writes movingly about what he called his "ministry meltdown" (although his "meltdown" ...

Research Shows Numerous Benefits from Family Meals

The Council of Economic Advisers to the President reported, "The largest federally funded study of American teenagers found a strong association ...

Puzzle Shows Our Need to Slow Down and Pay Attention

In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman uses a simple puzzle to show the importance of slowing down and ...

The Adrenaline "High" of Ministry Becomes a Dangerous Iceberg

The book God in a Brothel recounts the stories of investigator Dan Walker's ministry to infiltrate brothels and free young women and children trapped ...

Brazilian Leader Provides a Lesson on Friendship

Pastor Michael Woodruff recalls:

Americans are good at many things, but being friends and sharing life is not one of them. Our iconic figures—the ...

Boy Forgets How to Stop His Bike; Father Learns to Slow Down

Keith Meyer writes in “Whole Life Transformation”:

[My son] Kyle had mastered riding [a bicycle] with training wheels and was eager to try ...

An Unlikely Friendship Opens a Door to Share Christ

Kary Oberbrunner, author of Your Secret name, shared a story about his encounter with an older man named Bob. While Kary was at the local gym, trying ...

Starbucks Baristas Told to Slow Down

Starbucks, stung by recent customer complaints, has instructed its baristas to start slowing down as they make drinks. Surveys have revealed that many ...