Making their phone ring could get them killed Recently I was talking with a friend whose daughter is a student at Florida State University and was in the Student Union on April 17, 2025, when a gunman opened fire, killing two and wounding several others. Campus police quickly took the gunman down, preventing a [...]
What happens when your child’s school receives a bomb threat? Of course, the children are probably evacuated. But where do they go? When I was growing up, we had fire drills. Alarm bells would clang, and we would be led by our teachers to a designated place away from the building where we would stand [...]
Excerpted from Work as Worship: How Your Labor Becomes Your Legacy In my conversation with marketplace ministry expert Mark Goldstein, I asked how workplace worship relates to today’s church. Here’s part of what he said: If you ask the average pastor, most will admit they really don’t understand business and businesspeople. And they don’t know [...]
On April 10, 2017, in San Bernardino, CA, a man walked into a classroom where his estranged wife was teaching and opened fire on her. He killed her and an eight-year-old student, wounded another child and then killed himself. This was not a terrorist attack, but a case of domestic violence. It did not appear [...]
Are you a teacher or student? Would you know what to do in an on-campus shooting situation? Mark Gordon, chief of police at Oakland University (Rochester, MI), recently spoke to the school’s professors on how to handle and survive an active shooter. According to a report by Laurel Kraus in the Oakland Post, Gordon offered [...]
We begin this message on a somber note by recognizing the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Watching some of the new and older documentaries about that pivotal moment in our history has reminded us how far our nation has come in so many ways. Please join us in remembering those who died [...]
If you find yourself in an active shooter situation, you have four basic action options: Flee Defend Oppose Defeat This excerpt from How to Survive an Active Shooter: What You do Before, During and After an Attack Could Save Your Life discusses the first option. How to Survive an Active Shooter is based on an [...]
Active shooter situations are becoming all too common. As the number of incidents rises, so do the chances you’ll find yourself in the middle of one. Do you know what to do? In How to Survive an Active Shooter: What You do Before, During and After an Attack Could Save Your Life, we set the [...]
Several months ago, I met someone I thought would make a good source for a Conversations ebook on email marketing. Conversations is our series of affordable ebooks based on in-depth conversations with leading subject matter experts. This potential source was speaking at a business event I attended. (He uses speeches and seminars as lead generators.) [...]
Creativity is not something you either have or you don't. We are all creative beings. How creative we are (or aren't) depends on how purposeful we are in cultivating this skill. Try the following tips to boost your creative abilities: 1. Repurpose. Find new uses for existing things. Don’t look at items for what they [...]
