Skip continues the series Hustle and Grind King Solomon wrote to his son and warned him that though rest is good too much of it can be bad In the message A Sermon on Six Legs Skip shares why work and rest must be kept in careful balance [... more]

For thirty long years the African American woman worked faithfully for a large global ministry Yet when she sought to talk with co-workers about racial injustice she was met with silence Finally however in the spring of mdash as open discussions about racism expanded around the world mdash her ministry friends ldquo started having some open dialogue rdquo With mixed feelings and pain she was grateful discussions began but wondered why it took her colleagues so long to speak up Silence can be a virtue in some situations As King Solomon wrote in the book of Ecclesiastes ldquo There is [... more]

If you want to live longer take a vacation Forty years after a study of middle-aged male executives who each had a risk of heart disease researchers in Helsinki Finland followed up with their study participants The scientists discovered something they hadn rsquo t been looking for in their original findings the death rate was lower among those who had taken time off for vacation Work is a necessary part of life mdash a part God appointed to us even before our relationship with Him was fractured in Genesis Solomon wrote of the seeming meaninglessness of work experienced by those [... more]