“If I could teach this tough course, it would look so good on my curriculum vitae.” As preparations started for each new semester, the nursing faculty scrambled for teaching assignments. It was heady to be chosen for a course known for its academic content. No one publicly announced they were the more “academic” faculty member, […]
It is providential to have this lesson this weekend. Labor Day is a holiday, officially recognized in 1894, to honor the American worker. Toward the end of the 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks just to eke out a basic living. In some states, […]
I’m not the greatest handyman, but painting is one home improvement I’m pretty good at doing. Put me in a room with a paintbrush, a roller, and a can of paint, and I can make things happen (including splatters and drips). Painting can be a messy enterprise, but at the end of the day, you […]
“If your church vanished tomorrow, would anyone notice? Would anyone care?” Those were the questions posed to our small ministry team years ago at a local ministry conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. There were probably a hundred people in the room that day, but I felt like Rick Rusaw was speaking straight into my soul. Rusaw, […]
Paul wrote, “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people” (Colossians 3:23, 24 New Living Translation). A reporter once asked John D. Rockefeller how much was enough. “Just a little bit more,” he said. But my grandfather thought a little less would do—and for a […]
