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Monday, October 29th, 2007“Here I am, a spokesman for the All Pro Dad program, helping others be better parents, and my child took his own life. I figured this would wipe out any credibility I might have had. But then cards and letters started to roll in again. Many who wrote were parents who had been there, who [...]
Blogging from CCDA 2
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Here are my notes from the empowering indigenous leadership workshop. “The world’s best companies are realizing that no matter what business they’re in, their real business is building leaders.” – Fortune, “The Leadership Issue,” 10/01/07 I had a great time co-presenting with Flo Haraway, the woman who actually gets things done at Harambee while Rudy’s [...]
Stealing from Tony
Friday, October 5th, 2007If you aren’t regular readers of Tony Sheng’s blog, shame on you! On Wednesday, he linked to two incredible articles that I have to archive here as well. Marc Andreessen (internet revolutionary; founder of Netscape) on career planning. Among other priceless pearls: All successful CEO’s are like this. They are almost never the best product [...]
Thought of the day
Thursday, October 4th, 2007The Only Thing that Counts “For in Christ Jesus… the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love…. “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: [...]
About that vacation
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007It begins today. We leave for Orlando at 2:50 pm on JetBlue for some much needed rest and refreshing. As we leave, I take with me these meditations. “God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.” Genesis 2:2 “But the seventh day is [...]
Faithful, not successful
Thursday, August 9th, 2007“God doesn’t call us to be successful. He calls us to be faithful.” – Rev. Ray Rivera, 8/4/07 “Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even [...]
Word for the Day
Saturday, July 14th, 2007“However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.’” 1 Corinthians 2:9
Justice Thought of the Day
Friday, July 13th, 2007Via Matt: “‘Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’” – Deuteronomy 27:19
Let it slay you utterly
Friday, April 6th, 2007Good Friday reflection: “Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage instrument of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. [...]
Who am I?
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Question to all my Christian brothers in cyberspace: Who said this? “i speak as a christian- one whose commitment to democracy is very deep but whose christian convictions are deeper. democracy is not my faith. and american democracy is not my idol. to see the gospel of jesus christ bastardized by imperial christians and pulverized [...]
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