Handling Life's Pressures

I got a ticket for speeding and had to go to traffic school. In the defensive-driving part, they created a scenario: "You're stopped at a stop ...

Listen Slowly

In his book Stress Fractures, Charles Swindoll writes:

I vividly remember some time back being caught in the undertow of too many commitments in too few ...

Trying It Again

If your beliefs and behavior are initially misunderstood, don't cave in to popular opinion. Hang in there and watch God reward your persistence.

Acclaimed ...

Life in the Fast Lane

The problem with

living life in the fast

lane--you get to the

toll booth quicker.

Missionaries' Pressures

What problems do missionaries face? For what things do they need prayer? Cedric Johnson and David Penner surveyed 55 North American Protestant mission ...

The Pressure of Time

Have you felt the pressure of time this week? Time can be a massive pressure as we're talking about here, but I enjoyed the story this week of Porris ...

A Proverb for Our Times

There's an old Greek proverb that says, "The bow that is always bent will soon break." What that proverb seems to be implying is that the ...

Squeezed into the Mold

Americans love sound bites, which distill life's complexities into pre-digested bits of information. Sound bites fit our frenzied life styles. We ...

Fortified Within

There are two ways of handling pressure. One is illustrated by a bathysphere, the miniature submarine used to explore the ocean in places so deep that ...

How to Effect Change

It's hard to effect change unless people feel a compelling need to change.