By Joey Cochran Men, we call our wives all sorts of names as terms of endearment. I call my wife, “Babe, honey, sweetie…” and others. Yet, there was a solitary, significant moment where I called Kendall Hopkins by another name. On May 28, 2005, I called her Mrs. Kendall Cochran for the first time after...

by Ivan Mesa A glance through history reveals many men who kept journals: Ludwig van Beethoven, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Madison, Captain Cook, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Ronald Reagan. Some notable Christians include Robert Murray M’Cheyne, Andrew Bonar, David Brainerd and, in our own day, John...

By Bryan Stiglets In a leadership role within the marketplace you are afforded the ability to lead, provide, and protect your people. Yet, things get a little murky with the inevitable relationships forged between men and women. In today’s business environment, there will be female co-workers who you have a business relationship with and you...

By Jordan Broggi One hundred sixty-eight hours. In concept it certainly seems an adequate amount of time to accomplish everything one desires to do in a given week. And yet, most of us find ourselves going to bed on Saturday nights thinking about all of the things that we left undone during the prior seven...

By Todd Randolph Most jobs require us to interact with others, working as a team to achieve stated objectives.  How we approach this interaction provides us with an opportunity to demonstrate the Gospel actively working in and through our lives.  This interaction also provides an opportunity to invest in the lives of others in a...

By Todd Leonard   I have heard it no less than several hundred times in the past ten years.  No doubt, it is always well-meaning and well-intended, and comes from a multitude of choruses, but the assertion leaves me a little perplexed, and, truth be told, somewhat discouraged. The refrain usually sounds something like this:...