Supervisor's Presence Changes Flight Attendants' Service

Joe was an executive who did a lot of business traveling. One day when Joe was on a flight, he commented to himself, I cannot believe this flight crew. ...

African Pastor Models Christ-like Leadership

Ramez Attalah, general director at The Bible Society of Egypt, attended an international conference (the Lausanne Conference) for Christian leaders in ...

African Proverb About How Everyone Can Make a Difference

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending the night in a closed room with a mosquito. —African proverb

Four Distorted Images of the Church

The following list contains four distorted images of the church:

• The church as a gas station. For some people today, the church is a place where you fill up your spiritual gas tank when you're running low. Get a good sermon, and it will keep you going for the week.

Violinist Scans the Audience for His Master Teacher

In his book What God Thinks When We Fail, Steven C. Roy tells a fictional story about a young violinist who lived in London many years ago. Although he ...

Servants Must Be Prepared for Home Owner's Visits

Jill Jones wrote about a fabulously wealthy American newspaper publisher named James Gordon Bennett. In 1835 Bennett started a famous newspaper called ...

A Lesson on True Success from 'Charlotte's Web'

In his book Xealots, Dave Gibbons reflects on the nature of true success as a leader:

Charlotte's Web is a wonderful little children's story by ...

People' Magazine's Cover Stories Reveal Our Priorities

In his book Life: The Movie, cultural critic Neil Gabler claims that People magazine has became the archetypical magazine of our times. Gabler writes:

Visit to Calcutta Orphanage Reveals a Woman's Sinfulness

During an extended visit with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, Dr. Mary Poplin discovered the depths of sin in her own heart. It happened ...

Early Leader Augustine Chooses to Suffer with His People

When he first became a Christian, Augustine's ambition was to live the rest of his life as a private person, focusing on prayer and quiet contemplation. ...