February 2012
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer...
– Larry Bird
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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving...
– Mother Theresa
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Prayer necessitates collecting yourself - your thoughts, attention,...
– Myles Munroe
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Drinking from Jesus' cup
Drinking from Jesus’ cup
Matthew 20:20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something.
21 And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”
On one occasion, the mother of James and John came to ask...
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Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’
– Exodus 3:14
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Don’t let your ego get too close to your position so that if your position...
– Colin Powell, retired 4-star general of the US army and statesman
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of...
– Carl Jung
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character,...
– Abraham Lincoln,
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Serving God's grace to others
1 Peter 4:10-11 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
In paternalist political cultures that justify leadership more in terms of...
– Richard Whitley, 2007
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Rethinking our theology - Does God discipline with...
Discipline is pretty much a part and parcel of godly living. It is not a separate component taught out of a reaction to get even with legalism.
If we want Christians to develop and grow holistically, then disciplining becomes a part of holistic godly living. Like all other components of godly living, discipline is also rooted in love. Without love, discipline produces rebellion. Without...
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Change can be likened to a planned journey, through uncharted waters, in a leaky...
– Michael Fullan, University of Toronto
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In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find...
– Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
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Perspectives - a fresh way of seeings things
“Life is an ever increasing and widening spiral of development as people move through the various levels of bio-psycho-social-spiritual complexity, from one context to another. Every time people move from one level to the next, they undergo a major paradigm shift to the content of their thinking, a different window through which to look out on the world, a transformation of their basic value...
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Not only different nations, societies, cultures, and subcultures, but different...
– Dr Caleb Rosado
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STRATIFIED LEVELS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR...
Level 8 Turquoise: Whole View Holistic Harmony, holism, spirituality Lives for Wisdom
Level 7 Yellow: FlexFlow Integrative Natural processes, mutual realities Lives for Mutuality
Level 6 Green: HumanBond Sociocentric Egalitarian, caring for others, Lives for Harmony
being authentic, creating community
Level 5 Orange: StriveDrive Strategic Success, materialism, image,...
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Change is inevitable; growth is optional.
– Dr Caleb Rosado
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The Year of Jubilee
Lev 25:10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.
Some numbers in the Bible have special symbolic meanings. For example, “12” symbolises order/government, depicted in the tribes of Israel and the...
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A Kingdom not of this World - Seeing the Kingdom...
Honouring Authority
Secondly, as the governor over the Judea, Pilate’s word was final and it was out of this position of authority granted to him by Caesar that he spoke to Jesus, “Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”
It was here that Jesus corrected him and said, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been...