Posts tagged “Character”
Rediscovering virtue
Virtue is having high moral standards. Like yeast, it can work its way into everything. Virtue is also elusive. Goodness isn’t picked like seashells…
Shut your mouth, holy man (or woman)!
I sort of wish I had someone there to stop me every time I start saying something unkind or unnecessary or in a scathing…
Bloom where you’re transplanted
“Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if…
Think different
In 1997 Steve Jobs returned to a struggling Apple with all the force of his abrasive genius. “Think different” became Apple’s iconic slogan for…
Using God’s measurement
Oliver Smoot was a freshman sorority pledge at MIT. He and his friends were tasked with measuring the Harvard Bridge with a new unit…
Ambition in the church
These are hard days to be in authority in the church. We live in an age of severe antiauthoritarianism. It seems as if nobody…
A proverb and a prayer
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win…
When God waits for you
I grew up with a loving father who provided for me. Sometimes, though, he’d ask me to work for something. For example, he gave…
A word to impulsive people
The reformer Martin Luther once said, “All of us are either a Jacob or an Esau.” If you know the story of those twin…
It’s all in the attitude
There are three outlooks on life I know don’t work. Clinging to the past (because there is no future in it) Pessimism (because there…
Give a eulogy today!
Do you know what a eulogy is? In Greek, it simply means, “a good word.” We often equate eulogies to funeral speeches, but such…
The confessions of a man
I have a confession. It’s hard to be a man. I’m sure it’s hard to be a woman too, but I can’t speak to…