Shooting Despite Distraction

In one scene of the popular movie Robin Hood, The Prince of Thieves, Kevin Costner as Robin comes to a young man taking aim at an archery target. Robin ...

The World's Worst Waste

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy, God's heaviest grief. ...

The Importance of Concentration

Warren Bennis, in Why Leaders Can't Lead, writes:

The flying Wallendas are perhaps the world's greatest family of aerialists and tightrope walkers. ...

Living in the Hub

Sometimes I think of life as a big wagon wheel with many spokes. In the middle is the hub. Often in ministry, it looks like we are running around the ...

Risking Success

If a man is centered upon himself, the smallest risk is too great for him, because both success and failure can destroy him. If he is centered upon God, ...

Giving Critics the Best Answer

Colonel George Washington Goethals, the man responsible for the completion of the Panama Canal, had big problems with the climate and the geography. But ...

Know Your Strengths

Few of us really know our strengths. The great teachers, and great leaders, recognize strengths and focus on them.

Bumper-Sticker Religion

The more I think about it, the more I believe that we Christians are a lot like bumper-stickered cars. Some of us behave outrageously in the traffic of ...

Where's Everyone Going, Anyway?

Hamsters in cages run the rat race. They get in their wheels and run nine thousand miles, but never get anywhere. And it can be like that in the church: ...

Wholehearted Prayer

So anything that is to be done well ought to occupy the whole man with all his faculties and members. As the saying goes: he who thinks of many things ...