Reading Your Obituary

In literature the story is told of a man who opens a newspaper and discovers the date on the newspaper is six months in advance of the time he lives. ...

Absent Dad

Not long ago, my family and I had the privilege of going on a cruise. As I sat on the deck drinking coffee, I overheard a heartbreaking conversation between ...

Meryl Streep on Hollywood's Conceit

"It's sort of exhausting, this self-congratulatory atmosphere in which the movie community lives. It's unbearable. We're not that important ...

Your Part in Life’s Drama

In his novel, Edge of Eternity, Randy Alcorn compares our lives on earth to those of the characters in a novel. He writes:

Each character is placed in ...

The Fragility of Vision

Fragility is part of a vision's nature. People who think they have created an indestructible vision simply issue a command, write an agenda. Had Odysseus ...

Aimless People

I'm appalled at the aimlessness of most people's lives today; 50% don't pay any attention to where they are going; 40% are undecided and will ...

Unequal Status

The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education. It is no longer a world in ...

The Road Less Traveled

Within the New Testament, there is no indication that Christians should expect to be healthy, wealthy, and successful in this present age. ... Christ ...

Some Men Have Many Masters

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Two Types of Ambition

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of ...