“It is not you who shape God; it is God that shapes you. Offer the Potter your heart, soft and tractable, and keep the form in which the Artist has fashioned you. Let your clay be moist, lest you grow…
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Marketing the Church (Part I): “Mad Men” or “Holy Heralds”
“No, I’m not talking about Twitter,” Jesus tells Peter. “I literally want you to follow me.” – (Online Religious Cartoon) “Mad Men” is a critically acclaimed American television series about Sterling Cooper, a fictional 1960’s advertising agency in New York…
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Setting the Sail of Strategic Thinking
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward A mile-wide tornado with sustained winds of over 210-mph recently plowed through the suburbs of Moore, Oklahoma, killing 51…
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Calm the Bomb: Learning to Lead Under Pressure
“I have learnt through bitter experience the supreme lesson to conserve my anger. As heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so, anger controlled can be transmuted into a power that can move the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi The deadly…
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The Dentistry of Authentic Leadership: Overcoming the Toothache of a Lost Swing
“Well you lost your swing… We got to go find it… Now it’s somewhere… in the harmony… of all that is… All that was… All that will be…” The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) Rory McIlroy is a young professional…
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The Benefit of Benedict’s Benediction: The Enduring Influence of Prayer
“More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson To a society that unreservedly celebrates positions of power, prestige, and performance the recent announcement of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation indicates the possibility of personal…
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Lessons of the Bruised Helmet
“Where that his lords desire him to have borne his bruised helmet and his bended sword ?before him through the city: he forbids it, ?being free from vainness and self-glorious pride; ?Giving full trophy, signal and ostent ?quite from himself…
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Vanquishing The Templar Temptation: The Nobility of the Servant Leader
“Love has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what…
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From Risk to Resiliency: A New Philanthropic Paradigm
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” Robert Jordan In 1995, 168 people were killed and over 850 were injured when Timothy McVeigh’s 4,000-pound truck bomb exploded and destroyed the Alfred…
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Wrestling With Wickedness: The 13th Psalm for the 13th Year of the 21st Century
For over a decade, I have been associating the message of Old Testament psalms to their corresponding calendar year. As our nation prepares to enter the 13th year of the current millennium, I consequently pose the following question: “What does…
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