Cost-cutting Essential to Maintaining ProfitsSome things you should not cut. For instance, you must not cut expenditures your need for facility upkeep or upgrades or to keep pace with technological advances. Neither can you afford to cut back the service you offer to your customers. They must continue to receive the best service you can deliver, combined with the speed and accuracy they have come to expect.
Coping with Change: Develop Your Personal StrategyYou should take the same approach to the changes happening at your workplace. These are not temporary adjustments until things get 'back to normal.' They are probably the 'new normalcy' of your life as a company. The sooner you can accept that these changes are permanent, the better you can cope with them all--and enjoy their positive results.
Christian Gladiators? Athletics as a Metaphor for the Christian LifestyleWhere are you in your Christian race? Are you at the starting blocks? Perhaps you are rounding the last curve and staring at the finish-line up ahead. Or maybe you're still in the bleachers watching others running the race.
Christ's Dependability: Count on ItThis rock-solid dependability of Jesus Christ becomes the unchanging reality on which we can base our lives. It provides a dynamic power from which we can operate. It inspires our hope and energizes our courage.
Bone Box of the Rich and FamousIn 1992 archaeologists announced they had discovered the ossuary (bone box) of the family of Caiaphas. This ornately carved, stone container is the only remaining memorial to the man most responsible for putting Jesus on the cross. His wealth is dissipated, his influence gone, his name all but forgotten.
Bible Knowledge Key Read and RememberWould you please share with me your thoughts about how to study the Bible?
Another Look at Worship vs. FootballAt a recent campus ministry seminar we were asked to imagine if some football commentators were giving advice to churches about how to increase their attendance.
Best Practices Plan: Dissemination of a Great IdeaYour search for best practices must be continual, as you strive to strengthen what is weak, make what is good even better, and plug in what is best. You should also seek ways to adapt practices regarded as 'best-in-class' to new situations and circumstances. The overall direction of your improvement journey is away from isolation toward interconnectedness, away from the static toward the dynamic,
Ask yourself - So whatNeil Armstrong made his first moon walk on July 20, 1969, two months before I entered college. I remember that many Americans were euphoric about this accomplishment. There were songs written, celebrations, ticker tape parades, and coins depicting an eagle landing on the moon.
A Little Blessing Changes EverythingWhat a difference one success makes! Have you ever experienced it? I have! Things keep going wrong that ought to go right. Your hopes get dashed again and again. You want to quit, but quitting would just pile another failure on the rest. You look for the light at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel has caved in.
Settling The Debate About When Human Life BeginsThe abortion controversy often focuses on when life begins. Does it begin at conception or when the newborn takes its first breath?
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