Being Comfortable Can Kill Us

Too much comfort is dangerous. Literally.

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley did an experiment some time ago that involved introducing ...

Ministry Means Problems

One big demoralizer in ministry is not having enough people to do the work. A few years ago at Leadership journal, we'd been short-staffed for three ...

When You Feel Boiled in Oil

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is one of the fastest-growing franchises in America. In addition to their unique taste, a key to Krispy Kreme's phenomenal ...

CEO Jack Welch Tested by Pain

Jack Welch, former corporate chief at General Electric, grew up as a devoted Irish-Catholic. Early on he was an altar boy, and later, as an adult, his ...

Endurance Prepares Us for Adversity

After college and marriage, I found it easy to put on weight and get out of shape. A year ago, I became committed to working hard to take the "sag" ...

Handling Life's Pressures

I got a ticket for speeding and had to go to traffic school. In the defensive-driving part, they created a scenario: "You're stopped at a stop ...

Failure Leads to Something Better

Former President Jimmy Carter writes:

In 1966, I ran for governor of Georgia and lost to avowed segregationist Lester Maddox. [My sister] Ruth drove to ...

God Turns Persecution into Opportunity

John Rucyahana, the Anglican bishop of Shyira, Rwanda, served as a pastor in Uganda during the brutal reign of dictator Idi Amin. Amin targeted 200,000 ...

"Cast Away": Living with Purpose

In the movie Cast Away, Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems troubleshooter, played by Tom Hanks, is stranded on a South Pacific island, the sole survivor of ...

God Never Leaves Us

One tribe of native Americans had a unique practice for training young braves. On the night of a boy's thirteenth birthday, he was placed in a dense ...