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Ideas That Immobilize

Knowledge that you possess, and are not using, only gets in your way and becomes a stumbling block to real and meaningful contribution.

What follows are some observations I have made as I have worked with groups of people through the years, in work arenas, team building, missions, and also in physical training.  There are many, many ideas that immobilize, and I am sure I have these in my own life that I have yet to see.  Nevertheless, these are some that I have seen in my life and declared war against, as well as some I have routinely encountered in others.  I offer them here as an encouragement to you.  Consider if any of these ideas are holding you back, and if you find one, ask for God's grace to make you free.  He is faithful to answer the call. Continue reading “Ideas That Immobilize”

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Living?

To a large degree, we Christians are living like mere mortals…….  In truth, however, we are not mere mortals, but are born from above, and can, at once, answer the invitation to see and enter (living from a perspective of) the eternal kingdom of God.  We can make a clean break with this realm's controlling influence.  This is not complicated.  Help us, Lord.

The spirit of the age is playing the role of guide in this mere-mortal existence.  Following along, we look, smell, and taste like the predominant culture around us, whatever that culture may be; whether Eastern or Western.

Quit yourselves like men, and fight!  (in non-King James version – stand up and fight like never before!)  It is beyond important that this is changed.  We must fight to see it so! Continue reading “Living?”

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Think

 

When clarity is needed, nothing else will do.

1Voice 

  
 

Leadership is meant to make strength productive.

1Voice 

    
 

Leadership is defined by results, not attributes.

Drucker

    
 

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Peter F. Drucker

    
 

this (life) is not for children or small adults….

1Voice

    
 

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Drucker

    
 

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Drucker

    
 

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

AW Tozer

    
 

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Tozer
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Voices from the Past, Still Ringing True

I just finished Oswald Chambers:  Abandoned to God.  I recommend it highly!  Strong book.

I will spare you the book report, but I will say this book is careful to reveal something that I think has not been known broadly, that all Oswald Chambers writings, including My Utmost for His Highest, were written by his wife, and most of them after he was gone.  It is a great story of the way his contribution was maximized by the woman who shared a brief, but meaningful, marriage with him.  He died when he was my age now, 43.Isn't if funny how when you read into the detail of a story that you generally know, the emotion can still come through as if you were hearing it for the first time?  I was caught by this book in that way….  wiping my eyes, and wailing at his passing.  Same thing happened to me with No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green Story.   I recommend it too. Continue reading “Voices from the Past, Still Ringing True”