The Story Behind an Odd Contract Demand from Rock Band Van Halen

Many of us have heard about some of the outlandish demands made by music celebrities in their contracts with concert promoters. One of the most notorious ...

A Good Goal for the New Year: Intercepting Entropy

In a sermon John Ortberg once reflected on one of the greatest enemies of the human spirit. Though the sermon is close to three years old, it lays out ...

Hospital CEO Does Whatever It Takes to Find Patient's Lost Ring

In his book Are You Fascinated? management consultant Ken Tucker shares a story about the great lengths a person will go to find something of great value: ...

Loving Jesus: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

That you may love [Jesus Christ] truly, understand that his love is proved in three areas of your life—in your thinking, in your talking, and in ...

Resident Regrets Snap Judgment of Patient

Dr. Katrina Firlik was the first woman admitted into the neurosurgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her recent book, Another ...

Math Teacher Breathes Hope into Life of Student

Jeff Jernigan writes in “The Power of a Loving Man“:

I was poor in math until I hit eighth grade. For some now unfathomable reason, I found ...

Living Life with Eyes Wide Open

Erwin Raphael McManus writes in The Barbarian Way:

We had an incident while Jet Skiing off the coast of Wellington [during our family vacation to New Zealand]. ...

Medical Student Learns Valuable Lesson

In his book Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Atul Gawande recalls a patient he encountered during his final year of medical school. The older ...

Man Encounters Lazy Shoe Repair Shop

I read a story in the L. A. Times a long time ago. A guy goes to the house where he grew up and knocks on the door. Because he hadn't been there for ...

Christian Businessman Trains Teens

Isaiah Williams needed money—fast. Only 19, and about to become a father, he wanted to provide his child with everything he could. Williams heard ...