Morning Briefings

When we think of the journey of life, the going is more important than the arriving. We are not here to be somewhere. We are here to live and to share our lives with each other. Our lives are the ultimate pilgrimage.

– Reverend James O’Leary
I Think I Am Happier Than I Think I Am

When we settle in our hearts and minds that God’s Word can be trusted, we solve a lot of problems in our lives.

– Tony Evans
God Can Not be Trusted (and Five Other Lies of Satan)

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

– Psalm 90:17

Rarely does life unfold with the predictability of carefully scripted strategic leadership; far more leadership is improvised. We rely on our wits and accumulated wisdom.

– Chris Lowney
Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, ‘Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm.’ And God granted his request.

– 1Chronicles 4:10
as quoted in the Birth Choice Health Clinics Annual Fall Gala invitation

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in humility that comes from wisdom.

– James 3:13

He had been led to believe that business was of the world and that as he matured in his faith, Jeff would eventually be led to a higher calling, outside of business. Jeff recalls, ‘In many ways it left me feeling guilt that as a businessman, I was a second-class Christian.’ After much prayer and discussion with wise people, he discovered that his business was a higher calling and that it was his.

– Larry Julian
God is my CEO

The French philosopher Voltaire once defined optimism as ‘the mania of maintaining that everything is well when we are wretched.’ Some people are blessed with an upbeat personality that allows them to view life through rose-colored glasses and ‘make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.’ But even sunny-souled people can’t ward off all the shadows, certainly not forever, not without a sure word for an omnipotent God.

– Robert J. Morgan
The Promise: How God Works All Things Together for Good

If anyone lacks in wisdom, let him ask God, who is always ready to give a bountiful supply to all.

– James 1:5

This is true wisdom, to find a faith that can carry us through darkness, doubt and suffering.

– Sacred Space