Blessing Boomerang

I grew up in a rough Boston housing project called Columbia Point in a family of nine children. Although I'd been a hardworking student, paying for ...

Estee Lauder's Example of Waiting

Shortly after starting her perfume business, Estee Lauder realized she had to persuade a cosmetics buyer to place her products in many stores throughout ...

Hungry for God?

Speaker Mike Benson tells how one night, as his family was finishing dinner, his eight-year-old daughter left six green beans on her plate. She normally ...

Praying for Others

In one Leadership cartoon, a man at a church meeting says to himself, Oh great! Here comes Bob. I told him I'd pray for him! "Dear God, help ...

Jesus' Unanswered Prayer

When Jesus prayed to the one who could save him from death, he did not get that salvation; he got instead the salvation of the world.

Depending on the Disabled

One day [childrens television's] Mister Rogers was making a trip to California and decided to pay a visit to a teenager with cerebral palsy. "At ...

God in the Storm

You think it is spiritually important to have free time to be alone with God; but I tell you, you will really get closer to him by embracing the Cross ...

Tornado Insurance

"We said a prayer that God would watch over us."

—Sherri Conley, of Oklahoma, telling the Daily Oklahoman how she, her husband, and two ...

Waiting Like a Trapeze Flyer

Not long before his death, Henri Nouwen wrote a book called Sabbatical Journeys. He writes about some friends of his who were trapeze artists, called ...

Prayer That Pleases God

If our churches don't pray, and if people don't have an appetite for God, what does it matter how many are attending the services? How would that ...