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Posts Tagged ‘struggle’

Buy others a ticket….

One of the shortages in real life is in those who choose to give others permission to follow their dreams. I’ve watched person after person become overloaded and burnt-out because they don’t have the oil of encouragement in their engine. Very few people spend time buying another person a ticket to follow their [...]

Posts that may potentially knock your socks off!

This week’s great conversations:
•Ben Arment on being a sponge
•Perry Noble on Kissing a Toilet
•Anne Jackson Shady motels and Prostitutes
•Craig Groeschel on doing the small things
•John Piper is about to cause a stir. Good!
•Steven Furtick on Moving Deep Quickly
•Bil Cornelius on obedience and honesty… very good!
•Pete Briscoe on his struggle with being the best… best [...]

What do bailouts teach us?

Attitudes that bailouts may teach us:
• complacency- “the government will take care of our messes”
• no work, all play- “we didn’t even have to struggle to ‘earn’ this”
• I deserve this- “we have worked hard in the past…help us!”
• dependency- “we could [...]

raising our own salary

When we felt called away from the church we loved and worked with for the previous five years, we knew that something ginormous existed a little beyond our vision. Knowing that something big is up ahead, accomplishes wonders for clarity of mind and peace in the heart. Heather and I knew that [...]