“Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour” (1 Pet 5:8). When most people think of evil and its presence, they think of The Exorcist, or some horrible, frightening figure. They expect evil to come in some painfully obvious way. However, we should never forget that the enemy often uses craftiness (Gen 3:1) and even perversions of God’s own Word (Gen 3:1-4; Matt...

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For the first two weeks of her new job, Kim Till, the Chief Advancement Officer for Dallas Seminary, would not sit at her desk. She’d work rigorously at the table next to her desk, while glancing over at her desk chair from time to time. She considered the full weight of raising millions of dollars annually—a heavy burden for any person to carry, not to mention the first woman to ever be entrusted with such a responsibility. After two weeks of...

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The official letter read, “We regret to inform you . . . [You’ve finally flunked out of our university. You big loser!]” Apparently, staring out library windows, tapping books, and wondering if there is anything else out there, does not pass for actually studying. I’ve always tended toward the art of dreaming over the act of doing, both a gift and a flaw. Such persistent dreaming resulted in one painful parental conversation....

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