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Global Leadership Summit: Day 1

admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:44:52 +0000

I am thankful to God that I have the opportunity to be attending the Global Leadership Summit from the Willow Creek Association via satellite. After day 1, I feel like I was trying to drink water from a fire hose.

There was so much good information that I am still processing it all but here are some of the cool “sound bites” from some of the sessions yesterday. Enjoy and let God use them how He may in your life…

You do your best work between an appropriate challenge level and over challenged – Bill Hybels, Willow Creek Senior Pastor and Author

We need to call a problem a problem and work to resolve them as soon as possible – bill hybels

Our job is to move an organization from here to there, you have to believe that God is willing to help you move from here to there. If not, get on the sidelines. – Bill Hybels

Pray that the next 5 years will be your best 5 leadership years – Bill Hybels

Entrepreneurship – It’s a discipline and can be learned – Len Schlesinger, president of Babson College

If you can’t predict the future, create it – Len Schlesinger

Failure does not mean quit it means try again with experience – Len Schlesinger

Stop worrying about what you want to do now and start thinking about what to do next. – Len Schlesinger

Every person you meet has the opportunity to give you wisdom in life – Honorable Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ

Use your blessings to move things forward. – Honorable Cory Booker

You are the result of a grand conspiracy of love…. – Honorable Cory Booker

We are born originals but most die a copy -Abe Lincoln

We are here because of the many who had the courage to stand before us. – Honorable Cory Booker

What you see in the world around you is a reflection of what is inside of you – Honorable Cory Booker

The only way to make change in this world is to start with yourself. If we live our values we can make transforming change come about.- Honorable Cory Booker

Put your thoughts into action. Infuse your truth into your action- Honorable Cory Booker

Kindness can transform people and circumstances – Honorable Cory Booker

Stand in humility and don’t give up…reach out to each other…- Honorable Cory Booker

Stand for a cause… Faith with works is alive… – Honorable Cory Booker

Threat to-justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere- Honorable Cory Booker

Let us now stand up and tell our truth to the world – Honorable Cory Booker

Make change because you decided to – Seth Godin, Blogger, Marketing Guru

We need to innovate thats what gets people’s attention and makes you stand out – Seth Godin

If you want to do something go do it….Too many people are holding on to a gift and letting it rot… Not using it – Seth Godin

What the world needs is for you to lead them.- Seth Godin

If you vision is not intimidating to you, then its insulting to God. – Pastor Steven Furtick and Author of Sun Stand Still.

The difference between a daydream and a vision is audacious faith and action – Pastor Steven Furtick

Faith believes it before it sees it – Pastor Steven Furtick

Audacious faith has ambiguity to it – Pastor Steven Furtick

The difference between a daydream and a vision is audacious faith and action- Pastor Steven Furtick

Tip – If you EVER get a chance to hear Steven Furtick speak – Take it… He’s amazing and preaches the word straight up! – http://www.stevenfurtick.com

GIT…Making True Change

admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:15:44 +0000

You talk about the struggles and blame all you want but it’s nothing but spitting in the wind

The only way to make change in this world is to start with yourself. If we live our values we can make transforming change come about.

Put your thoughts into action. Infuse your truth into your action

- Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ

Revelation and Our World, Part 2

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:30:17 +0000

Before we get into the chart of comparing the seals to Matthew 24, I feel I need to explain a bit more my thoughts surrounding the events laid out in Revelation. My goal is not to figure out what is next or what is going to happen when… really my goal is to look at where we are in the world right now and to have an open mind toward how we might connect that to the prophetic scriptures.

Just like others…

I lean toward certain views when it comes to the rapture, tribulation, and millennial kingdom, but I try to objectively look at things with the understanding that I could be wrong and God could be doing it another way.

It’s this open minded approach that has allowed me develop some possible THEORIES (not facts) about what is happening in our world right now.

As I said in my last post on this topic, I believe we could be moving rapidly toward seals 5 and 6 in Revelation 6. But at the least we are definitely living in a world that looks exactly like what Jesus talked about in Matthew 24. Check out this chart below. Keep in mind that Jesus talked about these situations as being like “birth pains” – gaining strength and frequency as the time nears…

Jesus in Matthew 24	Revelation Seals
For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many… Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. (Matthew 24:5,7 NIV)	I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest. (Revelation 6:2 NIV)
Comments About Our World Some think this talks of one who is sent on creating peace through “conquest.” Many leaders over the last several years have tried to gain peace through war or forced change of leadership. It seems that this increasingly happening around the world with the uprisings that have been and continue to occur.
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. (Matthew 24:6 NIV)	Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword. (Revelation 6:4 NIV)
Comments About Our World If we look over the last 100 years we have definitely seen an increase in the number and frequency of wars and rumors of wars… Starting with WW1 through Desert Storm in the early 90′s. Even today, there is war going on in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and rumors of wars in the middle east.
(In this passage Jesus does not directly speak to the economic situation)	When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!” (Revelation 6:5-6 NIV)
Comments About Our World Anyone that uses money today can attest to the increasingly bad economic situation that world is in today. But if we look again over the last 100 years, this is not the first time, we’ve had bad economic times. The difference is over the last several years we have seen an increase in the frequency and strength of the hard times.
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places…Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold (Matthew 24:7,12 NIV)	I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. (Revelation 6:8 NIV)
Comments About Our World As I look through the news day after day, I am noticing more and more stories regarding people killing people (not just people but family members killing family members), natural disasters, famines, increasingly stronger earthquakes and an increasing number of animals attacking people. Along with that, nations (especially in the middle east) not getting along – threatening attacks, uprisings. Finally it seems (and maybe it’s just my experience) but people seem increasingly more “self-focused” then before. It seems like acts of generosity are not as frequent as they used to be… What do you think?
(Matthew 24 does not refer to any “Throne Room” events like Revelation)	When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” (Revelation 6:9-10 NIV)
Comments About Our World I am not sure how we would know when this seal takes place. The situation takes place in Heaven’s temple at the alter. It might still need to take place but then again it could have already happen…
“Immediately after the distress of those days “‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ (Matthew 24:29 NIV)	I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. (Revelation 6:12-14 NIV)
Comments About Our World This sixth seal and Matthew 24:29 intrigue me the most. As you read them, notice the incredible similarity between what they say about the sun, moon, stars, and heavens. Now Matthew 24 does not specifically talk of an earthquake but it does say “every mountain and island was removed from its place” – a major earthquake could do that….

I would love to know what you think of my thoughts here. Again my goal is not to figure it all out because the scriptures clearly state that only God knows the true timeline of events. But there is some value in knowing and being aware of what is happening and what is coming today.

I want to make sure that you also don’t get lost in the details… The whole point of all this is that Jesus is coming very, very soon and the hope that is found in that. Don’t lose sight of that hope and expectation of His return or you will become overwhelmed.

My next post will reveal some of the events in the heavens that are happening that could potentially be pointing to the very, very soon return of Christ.

Until then, Keep doing His will and spreading His Gospel…

G.I.T…Seeking Wisdom

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:30:27 +0000

Are you seeking to grow in wisdom? If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. (James 1:5 NIV)

It is that easy!

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:41:01 +0000

And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.
John 17:3, NLT

How do we get eternal life? Jesus tells us clearly here—by knowing God the Father himself through his Son, Jesus Christ. Eternal life requires entering into a personal relationship with God in Jesus Christ.
When we admit our sin and turn away from it, Christ’s love lives in us by the Holy Spirit.

Thanks for this simple reminder – NLT Daily Devotional Email

Proverbs 15:3

admin — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:15:03 +0000

The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.

Proverbs 15:2

admin — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:15:47 +0000

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.

Proverbs 15:1

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:15:42 +0000

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Zig Ziglar

admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:40:06 +0000

The most important persuasion tool in your entire arsenal is integrity. Zig Ziglar

The Last Ten Percent – Seth Godin

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:38:06 +0000

(excerpted from Hardly worth the effort – Seth Godin’s blog)

In most fields, there’s an awful lot of work put into the last ten percent of quality…

The last ten percent is the signal we look for, the way we communicate care and expertise and professionalism. If all you’re doing is the standard amount, all you’re going to get is the standard compensation. The hard part is the last ten percent, sure, or even the last one percent, but it’s the hard part because everyone is busy doing the easy part already.

The secret is to seek out the work that most people believe isn’t worth the effort. That’s what you get paid for.