When Keith, my 8 year old, announced his plans to sell beans in a Rwandan market, I wasn’t exactly the most supportive parent. “That’s impossible,” I responded. The idea of an American boy selling beans in a Kigali market just didn’t seem likely. But he proved me wrong in a beautiful way. We had...
Leaders – What Is Your Achilles’ Heel?
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,...
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 –...