High Expectations

For the better part of my working life, I have been taught to create “challenging goals.”  That means to conceive of the end product as higher and better than that which an ordinary effort would produce.  Start at the end, and conceive of the end...

Should We Have Pastors?

Pastors are the specially trained men (or women) who are expected to officiate at the worship services, present a message from the pulpit, preside at weddings and funerals, be active in all sorts of church events and programs, visit the sick, and more or less be the...

Is This All There Is?

One of the reasons successful people become successful is the inner drive to achieve and/or acquire that is a fundamental part of their personality.  Almost every successful person I have known has become successful by intention.  In other words, they wanted...