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Greatness God’s Way When the Loyola University men’s basketball team reached the Final Four in 2018, many thought their Cinderella season would end with a NCAA championship. Entering the tournament as a No. 11 seed, they defeated opponent after opponent to secure their spot in the Final Four. Taking a first-half lead against the Michigan...

Learning from Failure According to The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird, failure is a key to effectiveness. The authors explain that we learn from our missteps. “Failure is a critical element of effective learning, teaching, and creative problem solving. Mistakes teach us to focus on the specific task...

No Human Being Can Tame the Tongue Luci Shaw’s poem, “What James Didn’t Say About the Tongue,” ends with this amusing and alarming description: “Restless, a blind, amphibious animal, ceaselessly testing the limits of its porcelain cage, cunning in shaping breath into word: half-truth or proverb, benediction or blight. As original as Eden.

A daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: When my family and I drive around the Great Lakes of the Midwestern U.S., we keep an eye for the picturesque lighthouses along the shores.

Prostitution is called the world’s oldest profession. Just as the act of prostitution trades the value of sex, which should be treasured in a marriage relationship, for the cheapness of money, the image or metaphor of prostitution is used to describe a person or institution that cheapens its value and resources for financial gain. Both literally...

Mature Faith and Good Deeds: Example of Abraham How do we know Abraham had faith in God? Scripture tells us we know it by what he did (Heb. 11:8–19). He left his home to go to an unknown country. He trusted God to keep a humanly impossible promise to give him and Sarah a son. He was willing to sacrifice that son at God’s instruction. His...

A Shepherding God Kenneth Bailey, author of The Good Shepherd, was familiar with shepherding culture. He spent seven years as a child in the south of Egypt, returned years later to serve as pastor in rural Egyptian churches, and later lived in Bethlehem “where shepherds grazed their flocks around us.” Bailey brought these personal insights...

Daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: For many years I had a love-hate relationship with today’s Scripture passage. The “love” part related to...

In 1884, William Le Baron Jenney designed the first skyscraper to be built in Chicago. The Home Insurance Building was completed a year later and towered over the city—though it was only ten stories and 138 feet tall! If Jenney could see Chicago today, he would see a number of new skyscrapers being built. Tall cranes dot the skyline, and holes...