Our goal for our Shareable Saturday emails is to end your week and start your weekend on a positive note. When we select the quotes, we choose messages that we think are profound yet simple. And we love it when our subscribers see something more complex than we did. Recently our Shareable Saturday message was this: [...]
Recently I had the opportunity to hear John Rivers, founder of 4 Rivers Smokehouse, speak at a CLC event. CLC is a Christian men’s group, and I’ll explain why I was there at the end of this article. But, first … Though I hadn’t met John Rivers before, I was familiar with his amazing entrepreneurial [...]
We’ve probably all been ghosted. Ghosting is quietly and abruptly disappearing from someone’s life, essentially becoming invisible. The person doing the ghosting simply stops communicating with no explanation, leaving the person being ghosted to wonder what happened. When we’ve been ghosted, we feel rejected—and it hurts. We typically hear about ghosting in the context of [...]
And why are you listening to that person? I don’t keep score of my successes and failures, but when I look back at my life, I know I’ve had far more wins than losses. The main reason for my track record is simple: I don’t listen to people who tell me what I want to [...]
Sometimes God whispers. Sometimes He speaks loud and clear. And sometimes we don’t want to hear what He has to say. But when we listen and are obedient, amazing things happen. Kim M. Clark is a perfect example of this test of faith. Here’s an edited transcript of our recent interview: Jacquelyn Lynn: How did [...]
What would the thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi think of the reaction we got when we quoted him in a Shareable Saturday email? “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~ Rumi Krystal Parker, president of the Central Florida Christian Chamber, observed: “The [...]
The old saying that beauty is in the mind of the beholder is true—and it also applies to inspiration. What some people find inspiring, others find downright depressing. Here’s a quote we recently featured in our Shareable Saturday email: “The success of economic freedom in increasing human prosperity, extending our life spans and improving the [...]
I think I finally understand this powerful season It seems like I’ve heard people make references to what they were giving up for Lent all my life. Because I was raised a non-church-going Protestant/Spiritualist, I didn’t know much about Lent, so I didn’t understand the point of giving up something for those six weeks beginning [...]
We thought we were being creative when we came up with the concept of the My Book About series, but our customers are finding more ways to use these books than we ever thought of. The My Book About series is your opportunity to write your own book about the politicians and celebrities making [...]
Below is an edited transcript of the video: If all you can do is pray, then pray. Pray with passion, pray with enthusiasm, pray without ceasing. So often I hear people who know people in need and they’d like to help, but for whatever reason they can’t. Maybe the person is in another city [...]
