Leader's do well to remember that God considers our passionate pursuit of His glory as our pursuit of His holiness! His Perfection.
In our Godly pursuits, our 'hunger' is most often characterized by our enthusiasm.
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Sadly, many leaders have been convinced, albeit erroneously, that wordsmithing is an endangered art form...
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The intangibles of our leadership are the qualities and material from which our future is built and our successes are manifested.
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Hagar, when in her desperate plight from the House of Promise, found herself at the end of the proverbial rope. She's a desperate mother seeking shelter and salvation for her son, Abram's firstborn. Ishmael represents Abram's efforts to engineer an answer to a God-promise, to provide logic to a God-pledged miracle.
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/The most difficult journey you will ever take is the one that is accepted without the purchase of an airfare, sea fare, or toll.
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In the Shakespearean masterpiece Hamlet, Polonius said, "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." This is the last piece of advice that Shakespeare's character Polonius gives to his son Laertes regarding living a proper life. There is great wisdom in Polonius' warnings. His measured pronouncements and wise counsel warn against the disadvantage of living a life of intemperate pursuits; constantly chasing the lust-craze of self-satisfaction - living far too busy pursuing self-interest.
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The adventure of Faith fathoms the deep of our soul while Truth plumbs the secrets of our spirit. Trust seeks to reach the far recesses of our thoughts and illuminate every philosophical shadow that each of our life experiences have created. With military precision faith marches to the fore of our hearts demanding, with the urgent passion of an Inquisition, that our hearts seize our restless spiritual conscience with the naked honesty of our need.
Read MoreTHESE ARE THEY….THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK!
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The grand indictment against Christians is that our Judeo-Christian morality is problematic in today's culture. As an American Christian who takes the Bible literally, we are accused of violating the “rights” of others simply because we trust in God’s Word.
People of the Book believe the Word when it declared, “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” When 
we hear God’s Word, our spirits are quickened and our souls are made alive by God, our Creator.
Love is kindled by the Words of God. Divine Majesty is revealed in the Word of God. Inspiring Truth is revealed in the Word of God by the infallible pen of revelation.
Therefore, the Book teaches…and what the Book teaches matters. Both its exhortation as well as its correction are needed in each of our lives. The Books doctrine creates for us holy environs of worship, its letters give us directives we need to live overcoming, God-pleasing lives. The Books laws, statutes, precepts, and acts all grant us the authority necessary to embolden us on our holy assignment and missionary call. The Book commands us. The Book commissions us. The Book reveals to us our relationship to creation and the Creator… for in the Book we discover that in Him “we live and move and have our being.”
The Book encourages us, instructs us, equips us, qualifies us, authorizes us, commissions us, covenants with us, provides for us, feeds us, water’s us, nourishes us, lifts us, resurrects us, covers us, hides us, keeps us, clefts us, burdens us, bears us, and reveals us. The Word teaches us that “evil men and imposters will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived” and counsels us to make sure that we understand it’s better to be persecuted for godliness than to have fun times while being duped by the devil.
So no, Christians do not believe we are arbiters enthroned in judgment over others, nor do we believe that we have been afforded the right to treat others inferior. We are all brothers and sisters, joined together through the family of man. And yet, because we know the Book, we understand that "all men are born in sin, and shaped in iniquity."
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Because we are disciples of Jesus and students of His Book, we love everyone and because we love, we warn with tears every man who is living in his first estate, sin. God in His love promises us that if we will repent, calling on the Name of the Lord, we can be born again. (See John 3:3-5)
So, while we dare not condone what it took Jesus in His death to satisfy…the penalty of sin, we offer with bold confidence and gracious praise the Hope of all mankind, Jesus! Because He lives...we can too!
― Wendell Hutchins II
Courage. Admiration. Grace and Pain.
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Courage wakes Admiration while Grace dances with Pain and when it is all said and done, we can say we know what it means when it's said, “Hate lost, Love wins!”
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