faith and work on Warnings

In his book “Where Is God When It Hurts?”, author Philip Yancey shares an unfortunate, yet central dynamic related to how Americans respond to pain: we do everything possible to avoid it. That means p...

In Hillbilly Elegy the author tells of Bob, who worked with him at a tile warehouse with his girlfriend. Bob missed work once a week, was chronically late, and took many breaks each day, lasting ove...

In the second century before Christ the great rival to Roman power in the Mediterranean world was Carthage, the Phoenician city-state located on the north African coast. It had been founded in 822 B.C...

Let’s talk about how our beliefs shape our actions, especially when fear is involved. You've probably heard the phrase, "ideas have consequences," right? It's easy to see this in act...

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it.

Ambition has no rest.

The only way to avoid mistakes and criticism: say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Whether we are easily swamped or nearly waterproof, there’s one wiring challenge we all face: Bad is stronger than good. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt elaborates: “Responses to threats and unpleasantnes...

My thought it is a wanton ranger,  It skips away;  I fear 'twill bring my soul in danger  On Judgment Day...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

When the telegraph was the fastest means of long-distance communication, a young man applied for a job as a Morse code operator. Answering an ad in the newspaper, he went to the address that was liste...

The following advice on success, written by the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, is extremely different from what we are used to (at least in the West,) where success is often seen as an absolute good. ...

While I am not one to see a demon behind every bush or spiritual warfare in every difficulty, the fact is that we are regularly engaged in the struggle against good and evil—whether we know it or not....

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

On several occasions I have known the name of the victor before the end of the contest. Being a pastor, I’m often unable to watch the Sunday football games. While I am preaching, the teams are playing...

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Let No Man’s Ghost Come Back to Say My Training Let Me Down.

You may get to the very top of the ladder, and then find it has not been leaning against the right wall.

If you keep a bow always bent, it will break presently; but if you let it go slack, it will be the fitter for use when you want it.

Never mistake motion for action.

Hey, what if those crop circles are just ads for Target?

God has not promised to bless our good motives, dreams, and innovation. He has promised to bless his plan; that plan is that disciples make other disciples—everything else is a sideshow.

Feedback is hard because we’re taught from a very young age if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all. And voilà, now it’s your job to say it.

Let no man be disheartened nor discouraged if he have brought a good conscience and faithful labor to the service of the Lord. Let him not think his wages the worse paid if God do mingle bodily sickne...

I once was significantly lost. When I was a college student in northern Wisconsin, my dad and I were hiking on a trail that was somewhat familiar to me. I had been on this trail just a few weeks befor...

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.