Running Behind Dad

In 1976 Finland’s Lasse Viren immortalized himself in Olympic history by becoming the first male to win both the 5,000-meter and the 10,000-meter ...

God's Method

We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the church and secure enlargement and ...

Obedience: Majoring in Minors, Too

Sometimes we excuse relatively minor flaws in people, especially if they have done something extraordinary for God. But God doesn't just want extraordinary ...

What Power Can't Teach

In Fast Company, Jim Stuart, entrepreneur, Harvard Business School grad, and co-founder of the Leadership Circle, writes:

Leadership derives naturally ...

Rosa Parks Was Ready

Most people know of Rosa Parks as the black woman who refused to go to the back of the bus, and thus ignited the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, ...

Religious Pace Setters

For the first time in American history, whatever is happening in religion is being driven by the media instead of ecclesiastical institutions.

A Test of Leadership

This is one of the tests of leadership: that you recognize what affects people, not what should affect people.

Ministers Are a Flame of Fire

God makes his ministers a flame of fire.

Am I ignitable?

God, deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things."

Saturate me with the oil of ...

Heroes Are Different from Superstars

Our age finds it difficult to come to grips with figures like Winston Churchill. The political leaders with whom we are familiar generally aspire to be ...

Where Are the Replacements?

There were great preachers in Washington thirty or forty years ago, but, with a few notable exceptions, their replacements have not arrived as yet. The ...