CEO Learns What Happens When You Run out of People to Blame

A CEO has taken on a new job, and the outgoing CEO says to him, "Sometimes you'll make wrong choices. You will. You'll mess up. When that ...

Little Things, Tremendous Consequences

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

—Bruce Barton, ...

The Importance of Setting Parameters in Life

Wayne Cordeiro writes in “Leading on Empty”:

[Struggling with burnout], I had a poignant dream of a man and his family who ran a small farm. ...

Elizabeth Edwards Describes the Trauma of Spouse's Infidelity

John Edwards ran for his party's presidential nomination for the 2004 election and again for 2008. He did not win either nomination, but he was John ...

The Value of Affliction

Affliction is both a medicine if we sin, and a preservative that we sin not.

—Richard Hooker, Anglican priest and theologian (1554-1600)

God Gives Before We Ask

Max Lucado writes in the “Cure for the Common Life”:

The bank sent me an overdraft notice on the checking account of one of my daughters. I ...

Atheist-Illusionist Penn Jillette on Christians Who Don't Evangelize

Atheist Penn Jillette is one half of Penn and Teller, a duo that has been headlining Vegas shows for years with comedy and the art of illusion. Penn has ...

C. S. Lewis: "You Have Never Talked to a Mere Mortal"

Remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would strongly be tempted ...

One Escapes from Grave

Phil Callaway writes in Men of Integrity:

One sleepy Sunday afternoon when my son was five-years-old, we drove past a cemetery together. Noticing a large ...

Death of Friend Helps Philip Yancey See Easter in New Light

Philip Yancey writes in "The Great Reversal”:

After years of urban living had ground down my childhood love of nature, I found it suddenly rekindled ...