Automobile Choices
Some time ago, I remember hearing an account of a woman who refused to bring neighborhood children to church any longer because she had purchased a new car and was …
Automobile Choices Read MoreAuthor: Rick Grubbs
Childhood’s Expiration Date
Someone made the point that childhood has an expiration date. That’s an articulate way of saying exactly what the Apostle Paul said in the great love chapter, 1 Corinthians 13, …
Childhood’s Expiration Date Read More Common Things in an Uncommon Way
I recently noticed an older lady with an Eastern European accent working the counter in an airport news stand. I noticed her because she had unusual enthusiasm for her work. …
Common Things in an Uncommon Way Read More Contingency Plans
What is the worst thing that is likely to happen to you today? What kind of contingency plans have you made in case it does happen? I don’t mean some …
Contingency Plans Read More All Things Created Twice
All things are created twice. If you are sitting in a car right now, that car was first created by an automotive engineer, then later by a factory worker. If …
All Things Created Twice Read More Cutting off the Lion’s Head
A man once boasted about how he cut off a lion’s tail with a pocket knife. His amazed friend asked “Why didn’t you just go ahead and cut off his …
Cutting off the Lion’s Head Read More Expiration Dates
I recently read of a Rhode Island state trooper that once pulled over a 99 year old woman who produced a driver’s license issued in 1917. He ruled the license …
Expiration Dates Read More Extra Mile
A trucking company put their slogan on the back of their company’s vehicle, “We Always Go the Extra Mile.” But someone scrawled in the dirt just below it: That’s Because …
Extra Mile Read More Stop, Look and List
There are a few phrases we pick up in elementary school that stick with us for life. Remember “I before E except after C?” or “In 1492 Columbus sailed the …
Stop, Look and List Read More Strength of Purpose
One of my favorite quotes about success is from E.M. Gray, who said, “The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t …
Strength of Purpose Read More Thomas Edison’s Knowledge
Someone said to Thomas Edison ‘You are a very knowledgeable man.’ He replied, ‘What I know is like a grain of sand while the knowledge available is like the ocean.” …
Thomas Edison’s Knowledge Read More Double Your Failure Rate
Thomas J. Watson, the first president of IBM, is remembered as one of the outstanding and innovative business leaders of the 20th century. Under his leadership and the leadership of …
Double Your Failure Rate Read More Times 10
“What can we do to take this “times 10” next year?” That’s the question to ask when you have a successful experience that seems especially blessed of the Lord. Quite …
Times 10 Read More Tombstone with Dollar Signs
Have you ever seen a tombstone with dollar signs on it? No. And you probably never will, because when people leave this world they do not want to be remembered …
Tombstone with Dollar Signs Read More Tozer Quote
One of the deepest Christian writers of modern times, A.W. Tozer, was called “a 20th century prophet.” Since his death in 1963, his writings, which often exposed the shallowness of …
Tozer Quote Read More Life as a Transmission
In his book, “A Minute of Margin,” Richard Swenson compares life to a transmission, in that we need four gears to best manage our time. The first gear is park. …
Life as a Transmission Read More More Things that Don’t Work
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the …
More Things that Don’t Work Read More Right Transportation
The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Ave. in Boston MA is said to be the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train traveling under …
Right Transportation Read More 2 Sauls
As Dr. Michael Guido points out, there were two men in the Bible named Saul, who lived two very different lives. The Old Testament Saul was a king. He was …
2 Sauls Read More Action Points
It’s not what you know that matters. What counts is what you do with what you know. Often a boss sends an employee on a training mission where he receives …
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