Books are a treasure, and here is a list of books I treasure most highly.
Author Archives: Chris Cypert
(Self-) Image is Everything
Want to unlock your performance and can’t figure out why your hard work isn’t paying off like you think it should? The problem may not be in what you do but instead of how you think. Specifically, how you think about yourself.
Winning Spurs
The Black Prince and an astonishing tale of courage at a young age.
Protecting Our Daughters’ Virtue
Put the hay in the barn early. When she’s leaving for prom, it’s too late. We’ve reached that time of year when we start seeing cringetastic prom photos. Don’t get me wrong. Most prom photos are lovely, but we will inevitably see photos of young couples dressed up in their promenade finery, with the youngContinue reading “Protecting Our Daughters’ Virtue”
A Good and Terrible Friday
Today we celebrate a young man who felt more fear, and suffered more greatly than any man has done before or since. Through the most courageous act in the history of the world he showed us the full measure of love, all because he’d rather die than live without us. “And He withdrew from themContinue reading “A Good and Terrible Friday”
True and False Manliness
James Freeman Clarke’s 137-year-old treatise on manliness is needed now more than ever.
Don’t Hold Back
You never know what a difference a kind and affirming word might make in someone’s life. We should never miss an opportunity to offer kind and sincere words of affirmation for those around us. It costs us nothing but a bit of time, but positively impacting those around us is always time well spent.
A Good and Terrible Friday
Today we celebrate a young man who felt more fear, and suffered more greatly than any man has done before or since. Through the most courageous act in the history of the world he showed us the full measure of love, all because he’d rather die than live without us. “And He withdrew from themContinue reading “A Good and Terrible Friday”
It Can Be A Wonderful Life
Watching a bit of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” I’m struck by how desperately we need more of the spirit of George and Mary Bailey.
Merry Christmas!
I wish you all a merry Christmas, filled with love and laughter. “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 Today we believers celebrate the day when Jesus, the Lion of Judah, theContinue reading “Merry Christmas!”