Character over Reputation

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others ...

Stealing from God

Because I am my church's financial secretary, my children are familiar with the weekly trip to the bank. But one day my 3-year-old opened the bank ...

Reordering Priorities

As a child I was brought up to believe that it was not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game. Then, in the real world, I found that to ...

Start on the Inside

If a farmer doesn't plant seeds, he will never harvest a crop. It doesn't matter how weed-free his ground is; he must also plant and cultivate ...

Trusting in the Unreal

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Integrity Can't Be Recovered

Integrity is like virginity--once you lose it, it's gone for good. ... No officer should ever be in a position where he or she fears the truth.

True Intimacy

The ability to give to another without resentment and in turn receive from that other without embarrassment is what intimacy is all about.

No "No" in TV Land

Many of our adolescents and young adults cannot "just say no" to drugs because their whole approach to life has been shaped by television, the ...

You Can't Keep Promises

Realize that you can't keep your promises. That may seem like a strange first step toward the goal of keeping promises, but it's true.

Consider ...

Honesty Without Integrity

Charles Swindoll, in Growing Deep in the Christian Life, tells about a man who bought fried chicken dinners for himself and his date late one afternoon. ...