Posts Tagged ‘struggle’
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23 April 2009 tagged articles, artist, buy, christ, dinner, dreams, Encouragement, follower, friend, permission, pull strings, struggle, Success, ticket, tools with no comments
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 dreams. When [...]
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9 December 2008 tagged abraham, Abraham Piper, anne jackson, awestruck, ben arment, Bil, bil cornelius, blackerby, blog, blogger, cat, christ, church, communicator, controversy, conversation, conversation starter, cornelius, Craig Groeschel, deep, eat, evan, evan blackerby, evan shaw blackerby, excellent, God, good, Greensboro, honesty, hypocrisy, intensity, JEsus, john, john piper, Justin Wise, long, long long time, men, miscommunication, moving, North Carolina, people, perry noble, Pete Briscoe, post, pot, pray, pro, Prostitutes, quickly, real, shaw, socks, sponge, steven, steven furtick, struggle, thing, things, this, time, Toilet, tony morgan, video, way, week, weirdest with 4 comments
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 [...]
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4 December 2008 tagged attitudes, bailout, care, cliff, complacency, dependency, government, grace, men, messes, money, past, play, product, self, selfish, selfishness, serve, someone, struggle, this, time, unproductiveness, work with no comments
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 probably convince them to do this next time” • [...]
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29 July 2008 tagged abuse, awestruck, awestruck church, big, challenge, church, clarity, death, dinner, exist, friend, God, hope, JEsus, lead, leader, life, love, money, option, realize, rescue, salary, shock, struggle, support, UPS, vision, wonders, wrong with no comments
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 we must obey [...]