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 ...

Persevering through Pain

Author and pastor Gary Preston writes:

Recently I read about a professional hockey player who is a star of the NHL team in the metro area near where I ...

Persevering after Loss

In his book Alive, Rick Christian recounts a low point in Thomas Carlyle's life. The noted historian had just spent two years writing a book on the ...

Superbowl MVP Kurt Warner

The St. Louis Rams 1999 Cinderella season is not without a Cinder-fella. A virtually unknown quarterback by the name of Kurt Warner rose from the ashes ...

Mark of the Call

Quite often the absence of immediate success is the mark of a genuine call.

Model That!

In ESPN Magazine, Mark Pope of the NBA's Indiana Pacers had this to say about former Boston Celtics player and current Pacers coach Larry Bird: "I ...

Why Wait

In Nouwen Then, author Luci Shaw writes:

I'm an impatient, restless person. Slowing down and waiting seem like a waste of time. Yet waiting seems to ...

Parable of an Overcomer

The parable is told of an old dog that fell into a farmer's well. After assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the dog but decided that ...

Keep Making a Little Progress

Follow with me a 90-year-old man bent with the weight of his years; slow of step, with stooped and rounded shoulders. It is early morning, and he's ...

We Need to Play Hurt

Coming to American football, there's one thing that you have to admire those guys for: they all play hurt. That is, they go out there and play and ...