You Need the Team

NBA player A. C. Green writes:

Men often talk about their "glory years" in high school. At Benson High School, in Portland, Oregon, I was a sports-minded, ...

The Giver's Big Hands

A young boy went to the local store with his mother. The shop owner, a kindly man, passed him a large jar of suckers and invited him to help himself to ...

"Remember the Titans": Attitude and Leadership

Based on a true story, Remember the Titans spotlights the character formation of those caught in the difficult transition of integrating T. C. Williams ...

Function of Salt

In The Journal of Biblical Counseling, Timothy Keller makes the following observation about salt:

The job of salt is to make something taste good. I don't ...

Bill Maher on Sex

On an episode of the ABC television talk show "Politically Incorrect," host Bill Maher was discussing some rules for relationships from the ...

All Cultures Exploit People

The difference between Western culture and other cultures is that in the West human beings exploit other humans beings, whereas elsewhere in the world, ...

Prayer Frees from Self

Those people who pray know what most around them either don't know or choose to ignore: centering life in the insatiable demands of the ego is the ...

Excuses: Any Will Do?

Zig Ziglar writes:

My brother, the late Judge Ziglar, loved to tell the story of the fellow who went next door to borrow his neighbor's lawnmower. ...

Unexpected Rules for Life's Race

I once read a story about a bicycle race in India. The object of the race was to go the shortest distance possible within a specified time. At the start ...

Juvenile Violence

The last few years' shootings by high school children have put a national spotlight on juvenile violence. After conducting more than 5,000 interviews ...