And it helps if you talk with a measure of authority. You can gain stature in the group if you look down and scowl a little as you join the label to the person in question. Or “He’s a classic highly-strung, a perfectionist to the core.”. Naturally,...

I am pleased he does not cavern in and say, “Well, perhaps you are right, Zophar. You sound like those other 2 men, so I am not going to not agree and fight you on this.” No way. The powerful rebuke of Zophar is met by an even stronger resistance from...

Never fails, does it? Things aren’t as they appear. And about the time you believe they can not deterioriate, they do. This was definitely true for Mordecai at a critical point in the tale of Esther. Esther was in the palace, but when the king found...

Since we are encircled in this earthbound cage, this tiny space where light is frequently diffused and God is often silent, how do we be delicate to His interventions? What do we do when we, like Job, struggle in the mist with the Lord God’s silence,...

God was at work in the waiting, filling her thoughts with a plan. When you wait on the Lord, you do not have to sit in a corner considering your navel, or walk around in a daze humming “Sweet Hour of Prayer.” you do not have to go out on a hillside,...