The COVID-19 pandemic presented many organizations with levels of uncertainty that they had never seen before. How do you lead with faith...
Everybody has an embarrassing work story: a mistake we made, an unhappy accident, or a time we did something we regret. Where...
Although we usually associate happiness with success and sadness with failure, God teaches us valuable lessons through failure that can increase our...
All creativity requires the willingness to fail, and I don't know any creative endeavor where you don't fail before you succeed
Own it. Fix it. Embrace it. And don’t repeat it.
I didn’t grow up observing Lent, and even now our family doesn’t attend a church that emphasizes the liturgical calendar. I’ve come to understand Lent mostly through watching and learning from...
I needed to see my work with a craftsman's eye if I was to turn the corner into the second half of my life.
My hope for Jim's fruitful future at our church shriveled on the vine. I felt like a dismal failure as a boss.
“We learn by our mistakes!” said my fourth-grade teacher with enthusiasm. I did not find this comforting at the time and still...
Transcript On a recent tour for his book on George Washington, the author was both admiring and candid about the father of our country. He said, “Washington was 44 and had never led...
Business pages headline business mistakes. But just as noteworthy is how people recover from them. Pearl S. Buck once wrote, “Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can...
Because of the fall, our work is even more important to God's plan for the world.
After his heroic work on behalf of humanity, Noah falls into a troubling domestic incident. It begins—as so many domestic and workplace tragedies do—with substance abuse, in this case alcohol. (Add alcoholic beverage...
Seeing the unsuitability of Samuel’s sons, the Israelites ask him to “appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other...
David also suffers another failure that, to us in the 21st century, may seem strange. He takes...
The Book of Esther begins with King Ahasuerus (known to history outside the Bible as Xerxes) throwing a lavish party to display...
If you are blessed with sorrow for your own failings (the second beatitude) and with right relationships (the fourth beatitude), you will...
In addition to the accounts of the calling of specific disciples, there is also the account of the appointing of the apostles...
The Gospel of Mark, more than the other Gospels, highlights the ignorance, weakness, and selfishness of the disciples. This comes despite the...
Paul contrasts life in the Spirit with life under the Jewish law. Paul says believers have received...
