The Power of Honor

Ever since the time Doug Small shared this simple message from Genesis 18 with our staff in Oak Brook, it has been a favorite, a kind of benchmark for beginning to begin to put in words the spirit of a personal prayer life. Praying is so much more than asking and acquiring answers.

On the evening of September 10, 2001, pilot Steve Scheibner was packing for his assignment to fly American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston the next morning at 7:45. However, at the last minute another pilot, Tom McGuinness, voluntarily took Steve’s assignment.

Living rightly in a world of temptation requires nothing less than constant vigilance. Sometimes sin will look safe. What then? What is the best way to respond?

Many tyrants have fallen before God's faithful servants, as Goliath before David, but is it possible that any of us can control that giant we face now, the ever-growing tyrant of urgency, disorder, and distraction? II Chronicles records one king who did.