For nearly forty years, I worked as a dermatopathologist. Every day, I examined skin biopsies under a microscope and tried to determine what was happening in the tissue. In many cases, the answer was reassuring. In others, the diagnosis would change the course of someone’s life. Some cancers were obvious from the moment I looked … Continue reading This Frightens Me (Psalm 139:23-24)

In 1859, Henry Dunant traveled to northern Italy hoping to meet Emperor Napoleon III. Dunant was a Swiss businessman whose investment in Algeria was in trouble. He needed additional land and water rights from the French government, and he believed the emperor might help. He even wrote a flattering book about Napoleon and his empire, … Continue reading All Are Brothers (Luke 10:37)

Dale Carnegie’s first principle in How to Win Friends and Influence People is: “Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain.” It is good advice, and it works. That may be where the problem begins. Carnegie understood that criticism rarely persuades anyone. Point out another person’s fault and that person will usually defend it. Even when people know … Continue reading Dale Carnegie Said, “Don’t Criticize.” Was He Right? (Ephesians 4:15)

We sometimes say that our mouth has a life of its own. Usually, we mean that something came out before we had time to stop it. We spoke in anger, repeated something we should not have repeated, or made a remark we immediately regretted. But a recent scientific discovery gives that expression another meaning. In … Continue reading Your Mouth Has a Life of Its Own—and Scientists Just Discovered Something More (James 3:6)