“The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing . . . determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Not hoping, not waiting for the next plan.”…

 “For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down, count the cost, and assess whether sufficient resources are available to accomplish the task?” Luke 14:28 The Khumbu Icefall, located at the head of the Khumbu…

by Frank Marangos, D.Min., Ed.D. “My word will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11) Are Christian leadership principles compatible with Wall Street? Does a…

“It is not you who shape God; it is God that shapes you. Offer the Potter your heart, soft and tractable, and keep the form in which the Artist has fashioned you. Let your clay be moist, lest you grow…

“I have learnt through bitter experience the supreme lesson to conserve my anger. As heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so, anger controlled can be transmuted into a power that can move the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi The deadly…

“More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” –  Alfred, Lord Tennyson To a society that unreservedly celebrates positions of power, prestige, and performance the recent announcement of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation indicates the possibility of personal…

“Where that his lords desire him to have borne his bruised helmet and his bended sword ?before him through the city: he forbids it, ?being free from vainness and self-glorious pride; ?Giving full trophy, signal and ostent ?quite from himself…

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” Robert Jordan In 1995, 168 people were killed and over 850 were injured when Timothy McVeigh’s 4,000-pound truck bomb exploded and destroyed the Alfred…

For over a decade, I have been associating the message of Old Testament psalms to their corresponding calendar year. As our nation prepares to enter the 13th year of the current millennium, I consequently pose the following question: “What does…

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” Lord Chesterfield A “cliffhanger” is a common literary device that…