the real boss
While getting ready for bed one evening at our home in Uganda, my 9-year-old son said, “Mommy, the man who fights is the boss. The man who doesn’t fight is the real boss!”
leaders conference
British historian Arnold Toynbee once observed that the rise and fall of societies has a one-to-one correlation with the quality of its leadership. A recent study on the growth patterns of 60 churches seems to confirm this observation. It reveals that where the church leaders were positive, flexible, confident, cheerful, and goal-oriented, the church was growing.
Joshua understood that leaders…
too big to fail
Jerry terHorst resigned as US Press Secretary when his friend President Gerald Ford pardoned disgraced former President Richard Nixon. He told Ford that he didn’t know how he could “credibly defend” the President’s decision to pardon Nixon when common citizens were being punished for conscientiously refusing to serve in the Vietnam War. For his part, President Ford did not want…
as goes the king
A righteous king brightens the lives of his people like a quiet sunrise, while one who “oppresses the poor is like a pounding rain that destroys the crops” (Proverbs 28:3). Leaders who bring peace and prosperity are revered and celebrated, but the names of wicked rulers are treated with contempt.
David’s son Solomon was one of the good ones. His…
