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“Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turn ed to him.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

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Quickly and Simply Transform All Meetings

Leadership Freak Image source If you could only get back the time you gave to boring, ineffective, useless meetings! Meetings give the impression something’s getting done when usually it isn’t. There’s too much talking in meeting because people aren’t focused on doing. One rule transforms every meeting from ineffective to effective. Rule one: Mercilessly cutContinue reading “Quickly and Simply Transform All Meetings”

War inside…

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive,Continue reading “War inside…”

What will faith do…

As Jesus went, the people pressed around him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone. She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased. And Jesus said, “Who was itContinue reading “What will faith do…”

Be a straight shooter…

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, soContinue reading “Be a straight shooter…”

Binding…

  After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.”Continue reading “Binding…”

Forest for the trees…

  Soon afterwards he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow; and with her was a large crowdContinue reading “Forest for the trees…”