Abraham Lincoln once said, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” His comment is striking because it’s not what we typically experience. All of us have found ourselves on the receiving end of being ...
Mark Twain rightly observed, ““A person who won’t read has no advantage over the one who can’t read.” That motivates me to turn some pages every day. Following the tradition I started last year, I compiled a list of ...
What leader doesn’t want to have deep influence on those around him or her? You do and I do. If we are going to make a difference in the world, we must take seriously the way in which we ...
For years I’ve made it a daily habit to read the Bible, following a reading plan that gets me through it in a year. It’s the most important reading I do, bar none. It hasn’t always been that way. ...
“The first step to knowing God’s plan for our lives is the commitment to see ourselves as we really are.” Taking that commitment prompted Patrick Morley to pen those words twenty five years ago in his best-selling book, The Man ...
“Life is an improvisational art. We have to make it up as we go. If we are not dreaming big, we risk dying small.” So writes John Busacker in his delightful book, Do Less, Be More: The Power of Living Fully ...
“Most ideas are born and lost in isolation,” writes Scott Belsky in his book Making Ideas Happen (Penguin, 2012). If you want to take your idea production game to the next level, this book is for you. It’s packed ...
“Identity is never simply a creation. It is always a discovery.” So writes David Benner in his excellent book, The Gift of Being Yourself (IVP Books, 2004). I read this book after I told Jack, a friend of ...
What if Jesus were here today, running his own company—and you worked directly for him? What might you learn that you somehow missed from reading your Bible? We may relish the historical accounts of Jesus’ life, but they are ...
Over the past few years, I developed a habit to set aside some time every day for intentional, reflective, reading. That time each morning is my favorite time of day. As 2013 draws to a close, I thought I’d ...