Ants Teach to Benefit Others

Research has revealed that worker ants sacrifice time and efficiency in order to teach other ants how to find food—a practice that is beneficial ...

Michael Jackson Wanted His Father's Love

After Michael Jackson was acquitted of child molestation charges, columnist Derrick Z. Jackson quoted the singer’s own words from a 2001 speech ...

Discipline Pays Off

In The Sacred Romance, John Eldredge writes:

As a young boy, around the time my heart began to suspect that the world was a fearful place and I was on ...

God, the Master Technician

Even as pianos need constant tuning and regulating--not only when young and raw, but all through their careers of being used for brilliant concerts--so ...

God Will Waste Nothing

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

The Trouble with Old Clay

I took a piece of plastic clay,

And idly fashioned it one day.

And as my fingers pressed it still,

It moved and yielded to my will.

I came again when the ...

Skillful Sailors

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Successful Leaders Build Teams

The successful leaders are those who know their job is to build an effective team that will outlast them.

No Freedom without Discipline

Freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline. ...

Belaying--A Model for Ministry

Ten of us, all beginners, were climbing White Gap Mountain in North Carolina. We were using ropes in a system called belaying. I served as belayer, which ...