Near-Sightedness

What destroys perspective is our penchant to measure ministry on too small a scale. We lose the wide-angle view because we're riveted on the close-up. ...

One-Track Ministry

I suppose they say of me, "He is a radical; he is a fanatic; he only has one idea." Well, it is a glorious idea. I would rather have that said ...

In Support of Dreamers

The Tyranny of the Rigid

On May 24, 1965, a thirteen-and-a-half-foot boat quietly slipped out of the marina at Falmouth, Massachusetts. Its destination? ...

Need of a Mission

Without a mission, people live by reaction rather than initiation.

The Tenders of Vision

The tenders of vision are often lonely, usually unpopular, and frequently demand that others change. People with a vision inject ambiguity and risk and ...

Pain for Gain

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

Good Winners

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

The Quest for Character

Tom Landry once said, "My task is to renew the minds of our players so that I can get them to do what they do not want to do in order for them to ...

Keep Pushing On

Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so ... keep alive the incentive to push on further, ...

Empty Success

After the Dallas Cowboys had won the Super Bowl, Tom Landry made this observation. "The overwhelming emotion--in a few days, among the players on ...