The Doctrine of Prior Agenda

In Fast Company Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?, was asked, "What stands in the way of people finding their mission?" ...

Humble Wisdom

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

A Poem for the Brain

Gray, wrinkled, three-pound thing, I clearly see

I cannot trap you with an EEG,

You nervy organ, you, skull cased and free,

A brazen challenge to psychiatry.

In the Process of Becoming

I remember that first time in school when Mrs. Dirksen, my first grade teacher, asked me what my name was. I knew that. And then she asked me what my ...

My Greatest Needs

There are three things in my life that I need most, but they never scream for immediate attention: God, family, and my mind.

The True Meaning of Lust

There is a story of two Buddhist monks walking in a drenching thunderstorm. They came to a stream, and it was swollen out of its banks. A beautiful young ...

The Sign of Secret Fear

A closed mind is a sign of hidden doubt.

Divine Divination

[Part] of the equipment we need for life in a secular setting is the ability to discern spirits. It takes advanced Christian training to learn to tell ...

The Lack of a Spiritual Center

The number one struggle of Christian leaders is a lack of personal internal organization--that is, a sense of the spiritual center.

Know-It-Alls

As the methods of science achieved greater and greater triumphs, both theoretical and practical, the old picture of how things are, the picture derived ...