Bill Hybel’s on Leaders
2. Responding to the prompting is as important as developing leadership. Always side on the prompting. A heart that is cooperative with the holy spirit.
3. Leaders have an impressionable determination to get where god is leading.
4. Ask your self, “do all people matter?” the people under your leadership know who you value. Whoever is missing matters!
5. Love the redemptive drama we get to be a part of.
How CS Lewis came to understand the gospel and place his faith in Christ.
CS Lewis loved reading and thinking about myths, but he could not regard them as being at all true. To this, J.R.R Tolkein responds, “Myth’s originate in God, they preserve something of God’s truth, although often in a distorted form. In presenting a myth, in writing stories full of mythical creatures, one may be doing Gods work.” Tolkein goes on to explain that the Christian story was a myth invented by God who was real, a God whose dying could transform those who believed in Him. If Jack(CS Lewis) wanted to find relevance of his story to his own life, he must plunge in. He must appreciate the myth in the same spirit of imaginative understanding that he would bring to say, a Wagnerian opera.
Ernest Shakleton on what he thinks of sissies
SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON
Martin Luther King on Greatness
If you want to be important--
wonderful. If you want to be recognized--
wonderful. If you want to be great-- wonderful. But
recognize that he who is greatest among you shall
be your servant. That's a new
definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing I like
about it: By giving that definition of greatness,
it means that everybody can be great, because
everybody can serve. You don't have to have a
college degree to serve. You don't have to make
your subject and your verb agree to serve. You
don't have to know about Plato or Aristotle to
serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of
relativity to serve. You don't have to know the
second theory of thermodynamics in physics to
serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul
generated by love. And you can be that servant.
— King,
Martin Luther, Jr.
The Drum Major
Instinct
Atlanta,
Ga.
4 February 1968
First Things First
Oswald Chambers
Small dreams have no power to move the heart of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Editor: If a cause is not big enough, people are seldom moved.
Sharing the Gospel
Mark Gauthier
Joe Stowell on People
Joe Stowel
CS Lewis On Apologetics
CS Lewis on Christian apologetics in 1945 to the Anglican priesthood youth workers.
Undeceptions: Essays on Theology and Ethics
London, 1971
Church of Wales Assembly