Drop Your Nets!
A well-to-do family built a huge home next to the Amish community in Indiana. The Amish were standing there looking on in astonishment as the movers were unloading the snow…
Once there was a very successful factory that made drills. One day the owner told his corporate officials that he was going to retire and that he had chosen his…
Fred Everybody, Thomas Somebody, Peter Anybody, and Joe Nobody were neighbors, but not the type that most people would want to know. They were odd people, troublesome, and difficult to…
The purpose of life is to matter, to count, to stand for something, and to make a difference in this world we live in, even if it's only in the…
In his book, Faith Works, Jim Wallis writes about a personal experience he had several years ago. Jim Wallis is the founder and the leader of the Sojourners community, intentionally located in a…
A three-year-old little boy and his grandmother were studying a plastic model of the human heart. They located all the chambers and arteries. When they were finished the little boy…
In the early 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement, a group of white ministers issued a public statement urging Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the name…
Let’s pretend that you are a young lieutenant, part of the military, and part of the Presidential Honor Guard! Every day the President walks into his office, and you snap…
In his book, The Myth of Laziness, by Mel Levine, says that people who aren’t motivated are not lazy. They suffer from what he calls, "productivity output failure." I interpret that to mean…