Draw a line and then write four words from left to right: optimist, realist, skeptic, and cynic. In so doing you move from sunshine to partly cloudy, to the sodden gray sky, to near darkness. The young woman who is an optimist says, “Hey, there are lots of handsome...
Have you ever faced a situation when you absolutely felt like quitting? You gave it your best shot. You worked, you prayed, and you determined to make something happen; but just when you were ready to give up, someone came by and said something to you. And what they...
If your thinking stinks, your life will follow suit. "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." —Proverbs 23:7. Stinking thinking often leads to stinking living. In today's disrupting, ever-changing, and accelerating 21st Century world, being smart is not enough....
Walk the streets of any major city and you will see the same styles of clothing, hear the same music and watch people glued to their phones on many of the same social media platforms. But, by the standards of His day Jesus Christ was a non‑conformist who did not fit...
Running! That’s what life feels like for most people today. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Pressed, stressed, overloaded, trying to keep up with everything. It’s not just one thing—it's lots of things and all at the same time. When life is like that, you start avoiding the...
The conflict between good and evil is not a drama akin to that which John Milton described in Paradise Lost, written in 1674, long before the Holocaust or the atom was split. It's a contemporary battle that is played out in business, politics, science, and human...
One of the best things about God’s Word is that it tells us about real people with real flaws and shows how God deals with them. Take Saul, for example. The tallest and most handsome man in Israel, the Bible says that God called him to be Israel’s first king. (1...
In a TV drama entitled Uprising, the plight of the Jews of Warsaw and how they resisted the forces of the Third Reich is vividly portrayed. Some 350,000 men and women were forced like animals into the Ghetto where they were systematically annihilated. In the drama...
You already have an identifying characteristic. You are known for something, an attitude or behavior that is consistent. It says who you are. It’s you! Ask 5 of your friends or family members that know you well to describe your most prominent characteristic. (This...
Thoroughbred horses are your best horse racing bets. They're agile and fast and spirited—hot-blooded—per Wikipedia. Merriam-Webster defines thorough as a quality of being "careful about doing something in an accurate and exact way." So if you're meticulous,...