Character
What You Do With What You Know
The gap between knowing the right thing and doing it is not an information gap. James names what is happening in that…
Reflections on faith, leadership, creativity, and living a purposeful life.
The gap between knowing the right thing and doing it is not an information gap. James names what is happening in that…
Paul gives the Thessalonians an ambition that sounds contradictory: make it your aim to live without ambition. In a culture that rewards…
Anger is not a character flaw. It is a diagnostic. What you do with it when it arrives is the character question…
At some point the things a person says and the things they do begin to tell different stories. Jesus addresses this directly,…
Nobody chooses suffering. Paul says something about it in Romans 5 that changes what it means while it is still happening, not…
Every instinct in the body moves toward immediate expression. James gives three instructions ranked deliberately, and the one in the middle is…
Reputation is what people have concluded about you based on what they have been able to see. Character is what you actually…
There is a version of integrity that costs nothing. It is the kind that appears in job interviews and mission statements, professed…
The difficult thing is not the hard work or the long hours. It is doing all of that and watching someone else…
There is a particular kind of weariness that does not come from doing too much. It comes from doing the same right…