Jesus does not sit on the sideline of our life, ready to come in to give His take on our challenges. He’s not there to tell us how great we are, and that if we try hard enough, and just believe in ourselves, we can win.
George Herman “Babe” Ruth (1895 – 1948) was a professional baseball player whose career spanned 22 seasons. He’s one of the greatest heroes in American culture and considered the greatest baseball player of all time.
Leadership is not a set of character traits. You can have integrity, honesty, initiative, compassion–any number of positive and godly personal values, and still not be a leader (though character and leadership are closely related).
How do you look at the world? Some see the problems first, while others see the opportunities. Scripture instructs that Christ-followers are to go through life as optimists.
What will you do of significance with the 80-or-so years you have? When we’re young we have all the time in the world. And once we realize that isn’t true, we never have enough left to do anything with it.
The very first mention of a table in the Bible comes in Exodus 25. God is giving instructions to Moses about the construction of the tabernacle, the Jewish house of worship. God’s command was to build a specific type of table.
As you grow through life and work, you might wonder if there is a secret to becoming a great leader. Do the world’s best leaders know something that you don’t, which enables their leadership in a more effective and impactful way?
Astronauts since the very first days of spaceflight have spoken of the profound reaction that seeing the earth from space had on them. It is a state of changing perspective so specific and universal among spacefarers that it has been given a name: the overview effect.
Alan Roger Mulally (1945 - ) is an American aerospace engineer and former President and CEO of the Ford Motor Company. He also served as Executive Vice President of Boeing and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Mulally was No. 3 on Fortune’s list of the World’s Greatest Leaders.