Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it (Luke 9:23-24). When I...
Gandhi is the author of the famous adage, “be the change you want to see in the world.” He was making the point that if we really want things to change, it starts with us. And his life reflected the reality of his conviction. Gandhi was...
The movie Days of Thunder makes an interesting point about slowing down to speed up. For those who have seen the movie, Tom Cruise plays an inexperienced race car driver named Cole Trickle. Robert Duval plays Harry Hogge, an experienced crew chief and car builder....
Life is hard, that is a fact. One moment things can be going well, the next, well, not so much. The elation Notre Dame must have felt getting to the championship game, for instance, was followed by a disappointing loss. One moment their happiness is replaced...
Joshua Bell is one of the greatest violinist’s in the world. As an experiment by The Washington Post he anonymously played his violin, valued at $3.5 million dollars, for about 45 minutes in the cold at the Washington, DC metro station during rush hour. MIstaken...
Or have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? (Galatians 4:16) For those who watched the movie “The Matrix” you may recall a decision Neo had to make before he could know “the truth” – he had to decide if he would take...
Often times we are presented with information that we believe is true when it is not, and vice versa. The feature photograph, for instance. Do you believe that is a real photograph or not? It looks real to me. But could a great white shark...
Before the turbojet-powered supersonic Concorde became extinct there were two incidents worth remembering. The first was when an airline representative, sitting in a window seat on a Concorde flight from Washington, DC to France, watched an object shoot past his window on take-off. ...
I worked at Apple Computer, Inc. back in the 80′s when larger retail chains (Math Box, Inc., ComputerLand) were replacing independent dealers (individual entrepreneurs with 1-3 locations at most) selling Apple Computers. As with every evolving industry, competition grows with sales and so it was...
Marijuana has been legalized in Washington and Colorado, gay marriage has been legalized in nine states, marriages continue to crumble as our culture continues to tolerate what used to be considered “sin” as the new normal. While Gallup indicates that 78% of Americans still select...