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A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways... Former President Ronald Reagan once had an aunt who took him to a cobbler for a pair of new shoes. The cobbler asked young Reagan, "Do you want square toes or round toes?" Unable to decide, Reagan didn't answer, so the cobbler gave him a few days. Several…

"Two roads diverged in the middle of my life, I heard a wise man say I took the road less traveled by And that's made the difference every night and every day (with apologies to Robert Frost Source: The Shack, William P. Young p. 44

A few years ago I had a sore place come up on my back. I didn’t know what it was, I just knew that every once and a while it would itch like crazy and I’d be standing at a door frame somewhere scratching like a hog on the side of that door. Well, it stayed that way for a long time, more than a year,…

The finest attractions of this world become deadly when we become overly attached to them. A well-known author once told this story of an account he had with sea gulls: “Several years ago our family visited Niagara Falls. It was spring, and ice was rushing down the river. As I viewed the large blocks…

She’s so indecisive, her favorite color is plaid.

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be twins!' He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling…

The story is told of the vagrant who knocked at the farmer’s door and politely inquired about employment as a handyman. The farmer cautiously put the man to work on a trial basis to measure his skill. His first task was to split logs for firewood, which the stranger finished in record time. The next…

It seems like yesterday that a welder responded to my question about whether work was now more enjoyable because of gainsharing with this statement: “You’re _______ me! You want to know if I’m happier working sixty-hour weeks in one-hundred degree temperatures fixing little broken pieces because I hand…

Resolutions of the Health Conscious 2003: I will stop drinking coffee. 2004: I will not touch coffee in the afternoon. 2005: I will not drink more than 4 cups of coffee a day. 2006: I will thank my boss for the new Starbucks coffee machine at work. 2003: I will try to develop a realistic attitude about…

Orator, attorney, and political leader William Jennings Bryan said, “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a wholewith all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thingeither into a heavenly…

In the September/October 2007 issue of Today's Christian, Shirley Shaw tells the story of how the sacrifices of a successful cabinet maker named Terry Lane continue to change a drug-riddled neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida. My business had prospered to the point my 40-man staff needed more space…

Shortly after I became a Christ follower an older man challenged me to find key verses in the Bible that might speak to specific situations that I would find myself in through the course of a normal day. After identifying those critical verses and linking them to the challenges that may come my way,…

| In my experience, signs follow decisions. The way you overcome spiritual inertia and produce spiritual momentum is by making tough decisions. And the tougher the decision, the more potential momentum it will produce. The primary reason most of us don't see God moving is simply because we aren't moving.…

Two years ago, John Brandick, a 62-year-old British man, was told he would succumb to pancreatic cancer within a year. Thinking he only had that single year to live, he decided to get the most out of what life he had left. He quit his job, quit paying his mortgage, and used his savings to give gifts…