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Peter: Why God’s Leaders Look Bad
1/5/2009

Good leaders are rare. Leaders tend to be either proud and overbearing or wimpy and ineffective. And only Jesus would take an uneducated fisherman like Peter and make him leader of a world-changing movement called the Christian church: “You are Peter (which means ‘rock’), and upon this rock I will build my church” (

New Year’s Resolutions: What Would Others Resolve For You?
1/1/2009

It’s that time of year like no other when you do two things simultaneously: you reflect on the past and look forward to the future. You reflect on how you got through a tough year financially while you wonder what job awaits you. You look back on a wonderful year when your family got along and you wonder what changes are in store for your household. This year, you will add a number to your age, you will move one step closer to graduation, y...