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Sunday, August 14th, 2005Passion for God and compassion for people — it’s the oldest revolutionary idea known to man, timeless in its power and eternal in its impact. Pray it grips hearts anew this week, as Chain Reaction returns to New York City, starting Monday at 10 am when the teens arrive at Abounding Grace. If the measure [...]
The last word on a great leader
Sunday, August 14th, 2005“He was not a brilliant strategist or tactician, not a gifted orator, not an intellectual. At several crucial moments he had shown marked indecision. He had made serious mistakes in judgment. But experience had been his greatest teacher from boyhood, and in this his greatest test, he learned steadily from experience. Above all, [George] Washington [...]
After punishing defeats, they took it to the enemy
Sunday, August 14th, 2005“The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation, … was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, [...]
These are the times that try men’s souls
Thursday, August 11th, 2005I’ve been reading 1776 this summer. Completing it has taken far too long, but the delays were evidently a divine thing. They insured that I would read this passage on the train this morning: “In August, [General George] Washington had an army of 20,000. In the three months since, he had lost four battles — [...]
They were young and inexperienced, and they changed the world
Monday, August 1st, 2005I’m finally reading 1776, after several false starts the last two months, and am up to page 90 or so. One common theme has emerged time and again in the book, besides the obvious George Washington heroics (he of the “conspicuous courage under fire and a marked ability for leadership.”) Washington’s success as a general, [...]
Scholarships available for Willow Creek Leadership Summit
Monday, July 25th, 2005Attention all Greater New York student leaders, youth workers, and lay youth leaders: Apply today for a scholarship to attend the Willow Creek Leadership Summit, August 11-13, 2005. Details here.
“30 Emerging Voices”
Friday, July 22nd, 2005The August 2005 issue of Charisma magazine asks: “Who will lead the church in the next decade? These young Christian leaders, all 40 or younger, represent THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH…. They represent a new breed. Burned out on denominationalism, they avoid labels and aren’t comfortable with old church methods. Turned off by religious [...]
Why we believe in youth leadership
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005p>Youth leadership reflects the kingdom of God — where “the first are made last and the last first” — as expressed in scripture. Here are two examples, one from the Old Testament and one from the New.The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the [...]
What’s French for, “Chickens coming home to roost”?
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005“[Jacques] Chirac and France are parting ways. “And how. ‘There is an absolute divorce between him and French society,’ says Dominique Moisi of the French Institute of International Relations. And not exactly an amicable one, either. ‘If the uncoupling today is so violent,’ L’Express declared in an unsparing analysis, ‘it is because never, since 1962 [...]
Two cents worth
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005Consider:1. Dinner conversations between Simon the zealot and Matthew the tax collector. Zealots were 1st century, politically activist Jews who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman occupation and, on occassion, made political statements through the shedding of blood (think PLO or Islamic Jihad … old-school terrorists), while tax collectors were Jewish appeasers of Rome. As [...]
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