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Tag Archives: challenges

July 15, 2016

Review: “Do the Next Right Thing” by Roger Thompson

Do the Next Right Thing by Roger Thompson
Roger Thompson's book, "Do the Next Right Thing," is a guidebook to steer your perplexed heart through the hard choices and challenges you face.
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July 30, 2014

The one thing your dream requires of you

He would would build high must first dig deep. - JC Ryle
The dream God put within you demands something: a look inside. It won’t come alive until you do. And until you face some important questions: What am I willing to do without to make room for what is to ...
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July 2, 2014

What bulldog tenacity looks like

Sometimes I get the feeling that the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that’s not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral. - Robert Orben
“When it rains, it pours.” So the idiom goes. One bad thing happens in my day and suddenly my mind is on high alert to other calamities. Suddenly they’re everywhere. It’s as if the world has turned against me. ...
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June 3, 2014

Five tools you already possess that can inspire another

Five tools you already possess that can inspire another
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” If true, it follows that the most inspiring leaders will be those who help others become what ...
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September 9, 2013

Confessions of an entrepreneur

Confessions of an entrepreneur
A client of mine recently made a confession that startled me: “I don’t think I’m an entrepreneur.” Just months earlier I had helped her successfully acquire a business that she had led for over a year. Back then she ...
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April 29, 2013

How I reached the end of my intelligence

How I reached the end of my intelligence
How we view our capacity to grow greatly affects how we engage a challenge, be it a dream we aspire to achieve, or the next project we need to get done. As a third-year physics student in college, I ...
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January 17, 2012

Man Alive: Wake up your longing for a bigger purpose

Here’s a book you’ll want to get and read. Trust me. It’s a fast and easy read, but it packs an important message. The book is Man Alive and it’s written by my friend and mentor Patrick Morley. I ...
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September 9, 2010

Steering Through the Potholes: Series begins September 26

I would like to invite as many of my friends as possible to join me on a journey. Pastor Roger Thompson of Berean Baptist Church and I have been writing a book we’re calling Steering through the Potholes: Navigating ...
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May 16, 2010

Thought for the Day – Psalm 5:3 on Expectation

In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.”-Psalm 5:3 It is right to wait expectantly on God when we pray. So often, however, our prayers ...
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April 23, 2010

Thought for the Day – Max De Pree on Questions

We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.”– Max De Pree I have to admit, although I’m not a big fan of television series in general, I’m hooked on ABC’s ...
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