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Slowing Down: The Hurried Life is No Way to Live

"If we compare our pace to the pace of Jesus’s life, there aren’t many similarities. Jesus was never rushed. He wasn’t overwhelmed by life, even though He had an enormous mission to complete in a very short period of time... Culture’s obsession with busyness and hurriedness isn’t just a scheduling problem. It’s a heart problem.” - Frank Powell

How We Can Avoid Being Just a ‘Person of Success’

"...is being successful really that difficult?  Well, yes it is. It will require a lot of you... But do we tend to over complicate the process?  I believe they boil down to these five attributes, which when worked on individually, result in successful outcomes." - Mike Templeman
How We Can Avoid Being Just a ‘Person of Success’

Can We Learn From Our Mistakes?

"... trying to learn from your mistakes can be a very ineffective way to change future behavior for the better." - Kelly Haws, professor of marketing at Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management
Can We Learn From Our Mistakes?

Take Every Moment Captive

"In many ways, the perception that we have time to become the men we want to be leads us to become lazy and drags us farther away from the image of Jesus to which we hunger to conform." - J.R. Duren
Take Every Moment Captive

How Long Will We Wait to Speak Up?

"Into a world that considers any exclusive truth claim to be the height of bigotry, we must lovingly speak that Jesus is “the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through [him]” (John 14:6)" - Jon Bloom
How Long Will We Wait to Speak Up?

Don’t Give Up… Just Yet

"Fact: 99 percent of people who start marathons finish them... the real lesson, according to entrepreneur and endurance athlete Jesse Itzler, "is that we have so much more in our reserve tank than we think we do." - Jessica Stillman
Don’t Give Up… Just Yet