TOXIC EXECUTIVES There is a new breed of boss that's polluting the workplace. He's "the toxic executive," according to Stanley Foster Reed, whose book of the same title (published by Harper Business) describes their effect…
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COURAGE ENOUGH TO WAIT A father was unmercifully bawled out in front of his son for breaking some minor infraction on the train. When the minor train official had finished venting and moved on, the…
CHURCHILL'S CALL TO COURAGE Here are some words of courage from Winston Churchill: "What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon…
CAUTIOUS COURAGE IN PREACHING It may be light work to you men of genius and learning; but to me it is life and death work. Often have I thought that I would rather take a…
HIJACKING PEACE It was at this time that the thought first crossed my mind that all of us could very well be dead within the next five minutes. I hadn't really thought about it before,…
I CAN LIVE WITH THAT Hagar the Horrible, the comic strip Viking, is talking to his men, trying to encourage them before the ensuing battle. "This will be a dangerous mission, but anyone who refuses…
FAILURE AND GROWTH Who hasn't failed? The Apostle Paul failed, Peter failed, every one of the twelve apostles failed. David, Israel's greatest king, "a man after God's own heart," failed. Moses, giant among the Israelites,…
CANCER COURAGE There was a story published a couple of years ago in Homiletics about Linda, a mother of three, who was diagnosed with cancer and given one year to live. In spite of this…
JESUS KNOWS AND FEELS Years ago a woman was in the hospital, dying of cancer. She was quite old while at the time I was somewhere in my mid-twenties. Nonetheless, I was her pastor. While…
THE HALF-HEARTED AND HALF-WITTED Satan uses the tactics of the half-hearted, to stifle the aspirations of the half- witted.
COLUMBUS SALESMANSHIP BEFORE HE COULD SAIL, HE HAD TO SELL! Most of us think of Columbus as a great discoverer, but he was also a master salesperson. Before he could begin his voyage of discovery…
FEAR CONQUERED Courage is fear that has been conquered by love. Editor
ANDY ON TROUBLE "Andy, what do you do when trouble comes your way?" Amos asked on an old radio show years ago. "I just shut my eyes until it goes away" was the ready answer.…
ANGELS IN SUMATRA I love the true story found in the book Taps by a Dr. Mantle. The setting is Sumatra among the wild Battas. Two American missionaries had been killed and eaten. For twenty…
EXPLORERS NEED MOMMY Calvin and Hobbes are waste deep in the grass. Hobbes is looking off in the distance. With a worried look on his face he says to Calvin, "We're lost again." In typical…
ATHEISTIC APOLOGETIC I have a lot of respect for the atheist Betrand Russell. I don't agree with his conclusions, but I do think he made a great attempt at living as if there was no…
CHOICES OF LIFE Let us think of life as a process of choices, one after another. At each point there is a progression choice and a regression choice. There may be a movement toward defense,…
THE POWER OF PATIENCE The word never means the spirit which sits with folded hands and simply bears things. It is victorious endurance, masculine constancy under trial. It is Christian steadfastness, the brave and courageous…
DADDY TAKE Many years ago, on a Sunday morning when I was to preach in my congregation, I arose early to meditate, pray and study. As I tiptoed past my baby daughter's crib, I stepped…
THE BIRTHMARK I recently heard Chuck Swindoll on his nationally syndicated radio Bible program, tell the story of one of his classmates in seminary, a man we'll call Tom. Tom was a bright, outgoing, gregarious,…
