discipleship

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.

The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort _ and the stakes of the effort _ to see the war as a stage for their own personal heroism. Most men seem to have taken the lesson that there's enough honor in doing a hard job when you have to.

Time served does not guarantee maturity.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person__he two are often different.

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel

The author sees Luke's loyalty to the apostle Paul "depicted architecturally in the great church at Rome known as St. Paul Outside the Walls. There, a statue of Luke holding a writing stylus commemorates not only his work as a Gospel author but his faithfulness to Paul.

When I push the button on my laptop, it should start up. If it doesn__, it can__ blame its nonexistent emotions. It should respond immediately and appropriately because that__ what it has been created to do.In evaluating my parenting, I realized much of my anger with my children arose from my having the wrong perspective about them. I was viewing them as if they were machines.

A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.

In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!

Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.