Practice Makes Perfect

Effectiveness is a habit; that is, a complex of practices. And practices can always be learned. Practices are simple, deceptively so; even a seven-year-old ...

Difficulty of Leaving Old Life

For eleven years a man named Merhan Karimi Nasseri was a man without a country. For eleven years he lived in a Paris airport. He had no passport. He had ...

Don't Ignore Small Snakes

For eight years Sally had been the Romero family pet. When they got her, she was only one foot long. But Sally grew until eventually she reached eleven-and-a-half ...

Preaching and Sweating

The British missionaries who led my family to Christ made all the cultural mistakes in the book. I remember as a little boy sitting in the front row, ...

William Carey Converts

William Carey Converts: How a lukewarm Anglican became a fiery Baptist

Until age 14, William Carey later wrote, "l was addicted to swearing, lying, ...

God with Us

We cannot avoid the dangers and the reefs of which this life is full, without the real and constant help of God. Let us ask him for it without ceasing. ...

Communing With God

If you've made a habit of communing with God when the sun is shining, you'll find it much easier to sing in the rain.

Learning New Tricks

The dental hygienist was giving her pep talk about frequent brushing and flossing, the latter being something I have some difficulty doing consistently. ...

Going Beyond Past Achievements

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Settling for Less

Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, told a story about a goose who was wounded and who landed in a barnyard with some chickens. He played with the chickens ...