Dr. Howard Hendricks, professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, carried out a study of 246 ministry leaders. Each had been caught committing significant immorality within a two-year period. What they had in common: all had believed they were immune to their failing. In C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, the demon Wormwood mentors his nephew, Screwtape,...
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Life as a “Roller Coaster” Is The Wrong Analogy
We’ve all heard it said that life is like a roller coaster, a series of highs and lows. It gives the impression of regularly spaced mountaintop experiences followed by corresponding lows. That’s not an accurate image. In my experience, life is much more like train tracks with highs and lows in close proximity....
Five Lessons from the Greatest Philanthropists
Andrew Carnegie once said, “The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.” His belief fueled a passion for philanthropy that spread among some of the titans of industry of the last century. Carnegie was joined by John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, J. Paul Getty, J. Howard Pew, and many others who created massive wealth –...