Everybody these days is subject to stress. Whether you live in Manila, Tokyo, or Los Angeles, you live at a faster pace than at any time in history. It's the traffic, the pressures and stress of life, along with family stress that can cause you to reach the boiling...
The Secret to Unshakable Faith
The difference between an oak and a bonsai—apart from their size—is the root system. Whereas the bonsai may be interesting, perhaps even curiously captivating, it is the oak that has strength that endures the test of time and is there after the fire, the drought, and...
The Step Beyond Commitment
William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, was once asked. “What’s your secret?” Booth thought pensively for a moment and said, “God has had all there was of me!” Few can really say that. But some can, with all honesty and candor. One of my spiritual heroes,...
Learn How to Rest in God
The Dead Sea is five times saltier than ocean water; and consequently, it's almost impossible for someone to drown in it. A certain visitor to the area, not knowing this, fell off a pier into the water and wildly began to flail his arms and legs because he couldn't...
What is Even Better Than Forgiveness?
"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends," wrote Harriet Ward Beecher. Most of us, however, never get to the cemetery with those faults. We file them away in our memory banks, we store them in the closet; and then when...
How To Hear God’s Voice
Before they put astronauts aboard the spacecraft that were sent to the moon, scientists used a rather elaborate system to keep the rocket on the right path in space. It seems that, in spite of their great accuracy, the rockets would deviate from the correct trajectory...
4 Guidelines for a Regret-free Life
On his sickbed prior to his death, the British preacher, Charles Spurgeon, said, “If you do not wish to be full of regrets when you are forced to lie still, work while you can. If you desire to make a sickbed as soft as it can be, do not stuff it with mournful...
How to Stay Balanced
Michael Fortino is a time-management specialist. He is one of those capable individuals who analyze businesses and tells management how to be more productive, balanced, and efficient, but Fortino has changed his mind about some things. In the 1980s the personal...
How to Know the Will of God
In one of his plays, William Shakespeare wrote, "There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will." What the great poet of England was saying is that the hand of God guides us, and, at times, His guidance overrides the human will. Today many would...
How to Take on the Future
Suppose you had awakened at the stroke of 12:01 a.m. on January 1, and there, standing before you, was an individual in shining clothing which you immediately recognized as an angel, and you then heard these words: “The Lord himself goes before you and will be with...