In Proverbs 4:23, we read:Above all else,guard your heart, foreverything you do flows from it. Yes, but how do youguard your heart? If you are like me, then you have wondered. I read this verse dozens of times in my youth, determining that God wanted me to be very careful about what I chose to watch or listen to, to be careful about the fri...

"The hardest thing I ever had to do is nothing at all. When my nose itched, I had to wait for someone to scratch it. But there is power in the fullness of process. Rethink 'the wait.'"; Author ofTwelve Clean Pages,Texas Education Agency's 2007 Texas SecondaryTeacher of the Year,Nika Maplesrecently gave an incredibleTEDxTalk atAbeline Christian ...

They avoided my questions. Both writers who had chosen self-publishing and writers who had chosen traditional publishing would get cottonmouth when I asked for advice.At times you can sense a competitive tension among authors and speakers that is thicker than Corleone bloodlines.People will shut the shop quickly if you appear overeager. Ask to...

It stung when the teenage girl hung her head, blonde curls falling into her eyes, "I wanted to talk to someone older about it,"; she said, "but I really don't have anybody."; Days afterward, I was still thinking about what a tragedy that was. She was part of a church. How is it possible for someone who is part of a church to say that she doesn...