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Beyond the Sermon on the Mount
Great leaders make great speeches. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address . Winston Churchill’s We Shall Never Surrender . Queen Elizabeth’s (then princess) 21st Birthday Speech . Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream . Great speeches inspire. Inform. Incite. We remember them. Study them. Quote them. But what lends the greatness to these speeches are the people behind them. Eloquence alone fades. We remember these speeches because …[ read more ]
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I Don’t Know How You Do It!
“I don’t know how you do it.” Has anyone ever said that to you in response to how you handle your schedule, your stresses, the pressures in your life? I have. It makes me uncomfortable because it implies that I am some “other” kind of person, someone who is fine living with high stress and …[ read more ]
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Prophet or Whacko? You Decide.
So, I’m reading the book of Jeremiah and it’s brought to mind a question I wrestle with often. How do we know if someone is a prophet of God or a whacko? Take for instance, Crazy Mary. (That’s not really her name but it wouldn’t matter if I did use her name because she won’t …[ read more ]
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Black Dog Days
I am a fan of Winston Churchill. He’s one of my favorite historical figures. I also love him because, like me, he wrestled with Black Dog days. Do you know the Black Dog? The same man who famously said “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” Or “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” …[ read more ]