God Values All Service

There are no such things as prominent service and obscure service; it is all the same with God.

Perfection Is Servanthood

Perfection, in a Christian sense, means becoming mature enough to give ourselves to others.

Loving God through Loving Others

From Saul Bellow's collection of traditional Jewish tales comes this story:

In a small Jewish town in Russia, there is a rabbi who disappears each ...

Filling Uncomfortable Positions

Tuesday night I couldn't go to sleep. I clicked on the hotel TV and found my beloved Atlanta Braves playing the Colorado Rockies. It was the 9th inning, ...

Nate Archibald Serves Kids

During his 14 years as a professional basketball player, point guard Nate "Tiny" Archibald routinely lit up the boards with both his scoring ...

Leaders Mop Floors

In ChurchLeadersOnline.com, Kevin Miller recalls a lesson he learned about leadership from his father:

Dad and I padded through the tall pines, our feet ...

Cannot Choose Which Cross

God can never make me wine if I object to the fingers he uses to crush me. If God would only crush me with his own fingers, and say, “Now, my son, ...

Your Part in Life’s Drama

In his novel, Edge of Eternity, Randy Alcorn compares our lives on earth to those of the characters in a novel. He writes:

Each character is placed in ...

Mushrooms from Heaven

In 1880, a Christian couple, George and Sarah Clarke, purchased the lease for the Pacific Beer Garden.

Promptly dropping the word Beer, the couple added ...

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 ...