Thoughts from King David’s servant leadership (Psalm 143)… “And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant. (Psalm 143:12 ESV) 1. Servant leaders walk in humility (v2). 2. They “remember” and “meditate” on God’s faithfulness (v5). 3. They…
This New Year, get comfortable with your own skin. Stop trying to be someone else. No one else can be you. Only you can.
WE are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God’s…
Trust in clergy is at its lowest levels among Americans, a new survey has found. According to the Gallup poll, only 47% of the over 1,000 American adults surveyed said their trust in the clergy is either “very high” or “high”. This represents a 5% drop from 2012, and is the lowest that number has…
This afternoon is Breakaway’s Christmas party for prisoners’ children. The United States has the largest prison population in the Western world. In 2006, over 2.2 million men and women were in American federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Since 1970, the rate of imprisonment in the US has risen over 400 per cent, and…
Some of the best old and new Christian pick up lines: 1. “Is your name Faith? ‘Cause you’re the substance of things I’ve hoped for.’” 2. “Let me check out your tag—yep, just what I thought. ‘Made in Heaven.’” 3. “If I were Samson, I would let you cut off my hair.” 4. “You put…
In an interview with Forbes, Haydn Shaw, a researcher of generational differences for over twenty years, talks about why Millennials leave companies after a brief period of time and what organizations should do to retain them. His advice?
Loved this monologue by Jay Mohr at Nascar’s Champions Week banquet!
A 6-yr old boy displaced due to domestic violence wishes for a LeapFrog and its device learning games for Christmas.
This untitled and unattributed poem came from a little volume by V. Raymond Edman titled The Disciplines of Life: When God wants to drill a man, And thrill a man, And skill a man To play the noblest part; When He yearns with all His heart To create so great and bold a man That…