I read in an airline magazine article this week that IBM chairman Thomas Watson said in 1943: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” He was wrong. Physicist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) said in 1899: Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax. [...]
The Scriptures speak in Isaiah 54:2 of lengthening our cords and strengthening our stakes (NIV). There is a leadership application here for us to experience. Some of us are created to be lengtheners and some of us are born strengtheners. Lengtheners are often visionary leaders who want to see their influence and their teams grow [...]
I have a dream. This is a dream that I share with millions of God’s people in the nations of the world—that our God would visit His people in our generation, both young and old together, in a way that we will experience His power and presence in our families, our churches, our communities and [...]
Dwight L. Moody, the world renowned evangelist from the latter part of the nineteenth century, once said two and a half persons were converted to Christ at one of his meetings. A friend asked if he meant two adults and a child. The fact was just the opposite—two children and an adult—because a whole life is saved when a child is led to Christ. Do you know the following statistics?...
A farmer in Thailand will plant a bamboo seedling and will not see any growth for the first year. He will patiently continue to water and tend the seedling for the next three years. Then suddenly, in the fifth year, the bamboo tree will begin to grow. In fact, it will develop so rapidly that it will shoot up to two-and-one-half feet each day for six weeks until it reaches some ninety feet in height! Although he could not see it with the human eye, the past four years the tree was developing an underground root system, many miles long, beneath the surface. It now has a foundation established to provide for the significant growth that would eventually occur. 2012 is a year for you to experience God-given dreams and visions you received years ago...
Change is hard for most of us. We are naturally resistant to it. But we must constantly be ready to embrace change when it comes. Human nature has always resisted change. For example, read the following letter written January 31, 1829 by Martin Van Buren, then governor of New York, to President Jackson, concerning an “evil” new business enterprise threatening our nation...
A man of God once wrote, “The holiday is called Thanksgiving…not Thanks-feeling.” Giving thanks is something we give, not always something we feel. But I feel really grateful right now. This past year 2011 has been a pretty tough year for us…
I read the book of Acts again this week. Love that book of the Bible! I remember saying years ago, “When you read the book of Acts, everywhere Paul and the apostles went there was either a revival or riot.” There was no time in the early church for boring religious tradition. They knew that [...]
Did you know that Thomas Edison tried over 200 different elements before he figured out what was the right element to use in the light bulb? And in 21 years, baseball great Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs but he struck out 1330 times? He struck out nearly twice as often as he hit a [...]
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick” says the writer of Proverbs (Prov. 13:12). We all experience times of longing for something that doesn’t turn out the way we had planned; the pain of unmet expectations. And our “heart” feels sick. I sat with a pastor and his wife one evening, and she blurted out, “I hate last suppers!”...