With our summer project coming up and COVID-19 spreading faster, we’ve been asking all of our staff and students to monitor their symptoms and take their temperature every day for a week leading up to the project. We want to help catch any potential sickness before it spreads! Similarly, it’s wise to take our spiritual …
(This is part 3 of a 3 part series on reading. Click to read part 1 & part 2) Isn’t it frustrating when you read a book and then forget what it is about? It feels like such a waste when someone sees a book in my bookshelf, asks me about it, and I can’t remember anything. I …
(This is part 2 of a 3 part series on reading. Click to read part 1 & part 3) I know why you aren’t enjoying reading. I’ve been working on college campuses for 12 years and one thing has stood out to me: people don’t know how to read. I’ll ask guys to read a passage from the …
(This is part 1 of a 3 part series on reading. Click to read part 2 & part 3) You did it too, didn’t you? You had a plan to read. You ordered that book on Amazon (or 3). And it’s been sitting on your desk for weeks—staring at you. Sure! I know you peeled …
Books play an important role in a leader’s life. Charlie Jones famously said, “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” I don’t think I’d go THAT far, but reading and learning certainly are important! Tim Keller once said, “Christianity is a thinking man’s religion.” …
If you could know the exact date of your death, would you want to? A little morbid, I know, but think about it! COVID-19 should have sobered all of us to our mortality. What would change about your life if you had that kind of information? You might think ignorance is bliss and prefer not …
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