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In the foreword to Leaders Eat Last, George Flynn writes, “Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.” --Leaders Eat Last, Forward, loc 124. Colossians 3:12 (CSB) Therefore, as God’s…

Nurse Sarah Calvelage is dispensing more than Meds as she treats patients in the COVID-19 ICU of her Huntsville, Alabama hospital—she is giving smiles. As you can imagine, it can be hard for patients to fight the physical effects of the disease, but that is not their only challenge. The only human interaction…

Jeff Gebhart, 47, of Kansas City has offered to pay anyone who can find him a girlfriend a bonus. She must take a survey, no word as to what is in the survey that Jeff approves. She must agree to date him exclusively for one year. And what would that recommending person receive from Jeff? $25,000 is…

When Mark Eklund was in junior high school, Helen Mrosla was his math teacher. One Friday she sensed that the students were frustrated with themselves and edgy with one another. To get a handle on this she asked them to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving…

On October 2nd, 2006 at 10:25am, Charles Carl Roberts IV entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community of Nickel Mines in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He instructed all of the adults and young boys to leave, but held the remaining ten girls hostage. Sensing what was to come, one of the girls offered…

A winter storm that stranded a group of soldiers became an opportunity for an Oklahoma community to show kindness. Hundreds of soldiers returning from holiday break were stuck at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City because the road to their base in Lawton, 80 miles away, was impassible. When…

Albert Lexie shined shoes for a living. Every Tuesday and Thursday for 32 years, he would leave home at 5:50 a.m. and make a three-bus trek to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. There, he shined the shoes of staff and visitors and donated all of his tips to the hospital’s young patients. By the…

Writing in World Magazine, Editor Marvin Olasky tries to make sense out of our current cultural situation. He says that we are essentially two nations. As one example he proposes, “We have an America of compassion toward the very young and the very old, and a United States of callousness that promotes…

Pope Francis sets a spiritual example for millions of people, but on a trip to Peru he suffered what many other people experience every day, a flat tire. While being driven into Lima from the airport, one of the tires of the car that was taking the Pope into the city began losing air. The motorcade came…

Jeffery Lew’s third-grade son went to school in Seattle. Jeffery heard that some families at his son’s school owed money to the school lunch program and that after three days the district disables their lunch account and bills the parents. Jeffery checked and the entire debt for the school was 97 dollars.…

An Australian mother who spent several days in the hospital with her infant son returned to find two surprises on her car. She found a parking ticket and a note from a stranger who had paid the fine. The mother, who did not identify herself, posted on a Canberra Mum’s Facebook page to thank the woman…

When Pope Francis visited South Korea in August of 2014, it caused quite a stir to some journalists. What was the stir? It was not the grand pomp and pageantry accompanying a papal visit. The stir was the fact that Pope Francis rode in a very small and modest Kia to his different destinations. –Jim L.…

When neighbors in a Michigan community were annoyed over a paperboy’s car making too much noise early in the morning, they had a choice. They could file a noise complaint with the police, or call the Newspaper and get him fired. Instead they decided to help out someone in need. The paper boy’s car had…

The cell-phone video of a woman paying for diapers for a cash strapped young mother went viral after another shopper who witnessed the act of kindness and put it on his Facebook page. Carol Flynn had just paid for her purchase and was preparing to leave the store, when she overheard a young woman behind…

According to tradition, in 1357 a Swiss man named Konrad Mueller killed another man named Heinrich Stucki. Part of the punishment was that Mueller and all subsequent owners of the farm had to give a local church 70 Swiss francs ($76 US) a year to cover the cost of candles and oil to keep an eternal lamp…

After 73 years of working at Macy’s department store in New York City, Rose Syracuse is retiring from her job as an accountant. She took the job when she graduated from high school in 1939. Rose is 92 now, and after falling and breaking a hip, she decided it was time to retire. “On her last day at the…

In 2004, Ameneh Bahrami suffered burns to her face, and lost her eyesight when a man threw acid in her face because she refused his marriage proposal. Authorities later arrested the man and convicted him of the crime; the judge sentenced the man using the Islamic law system of “qisas” or eye-for-an-eye…

Denis Estimon remembers what loneliness felt like. As an immigrant from Haiti he felt isolated and alone when he first immigrated to the US. “It’s not a good feeling, like you’re by yourself.” Now that he has become a popular senior at his high school he is working to help others overcome their loneliness.…

After several disappointing seasons, the Minnesota Timberwolves Basketball team decided the best way to begin a new season was honesty. Before the 2010 season began, The Timberwolves took out a full-page ad in the Minneapolis newspaper to talk to their fans. The ad included an open letter to fans that…

Culling the Army of God Purpose: To equip saints to be effective soldiers in the Lord's Army. Judges 7:2 And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved…

In 1966 I joined Operation Mobilization for a year of ministry in France, but spent two years in India instead. While in London that summer, at the one-month OM orientation, I volunteered to work on a clean-up crew late one night. Around 12:30am I was sweeping the front steps of the Conference Centre…

PREJUDICE In the fictional Star Trek universe, the relationship between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire paralleled the real world relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war era. Fear, lack of trust, and hate characterized the association. In…

In Character Is DestinyJohn McCain wrote about his imprisonment in the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War. "During the time I was held in solitary, I was caught, not for the first time, communicating with my dear friend in the cell next to mine. For my transgression, I was kept overnight in a punishment…

KINDNESS, DAVID/SAUL The believer is to put on "kindness" (Col. 3:12). This refers to a gentle, gracious disposition. When I think of this quality, a particular godly leader comes to mind. Years ago another leader in the area did him much harm and sought to ruin his reputation. In a board meeting with…

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" William A. Ward Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Jean Baptiste Massieu. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G.K. Chesterton You say grace…