Could there be anything more powerful than words? Seriously. Imagine one day without words—neither hearing them nor speaking them. And no reading and writing. Imagine school if language did not exist. How would we teach anyone anything? What if our whole existence were gestures and rudimentary signs (sign language WITHOUT words or letters). Imagine theContinue reading “Words.”
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Balaam. Numbers 22-24, 31.
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Aaron and Moses: Two Kinds of Leaders.
When the Israelites complained, Aaron made an idol and they partied like drunken frat boys. God told Moses: “Go down at once! For your people you brought up from the land of Egypt have acted wickedly. They have made for themselves an image of a calf. They have bowed down to it, sacrificed to it,Continue reading “Aaron and Moses: Two Kinds of Leaders.”
Passive Voice of Biblical Proportions.
You know what passive voice is? It’s the opposite of Jocko Willink’s “extreme ownership.” Writers and English teachers deride passive voice because it is an attempt to conceal the cause of things, such as when you say, “the lamp fell and broke,” rather than “I broke the lamp.” In Exodus 32, Aaron employs passive voice.Continue reading “Passive Voice of Biblical Proportions.”
Integrity is More Than Telling the Truth.
You can WORK with integrity. How? By doing your best, by not cutting corners. Give it your all. You can also READ with integrity. Integrity requires not giving up until you fully understand. That may mean reading over and over or looking things up, or asking for help. When you read with integrity you grabContinue reading “Integrity is More Than Telling the Truth.”
Integrity Builds Courage & Wisdom.
Nothing builds COURAGE and WISDOM faster than integrity. Integrity builds courage because it requires people to do things they find frightening. Integrity builds wisdom because the good decisions it requires draw a person out of darkness and into the light. Both Job and his friends are men of integrity. (But only Job is a manContinue reading “Integrity Builds Courage & Wisdom.”
Abstinence is Weight Lifting for the Soul. Genesis 16:9.
Such abstinence actually characterizes the lives of mature believers: you constantly see opportunities or “open doors,” but you pray and God is silent and you realize you must persevere where you are: Keep that job. Stay at that church. Mend that relationship. Work out that marriage. You must ABSTAIN from the temptation to quit.
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