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There is a difference between playing not to lose and playing to win. ‘Oh I hope I don’t lose, I hope I can pay the bills this month’, versus playing to win. Imagine a football match and the team are playing not to lose, they are playing tentatively. The commentators call this playing with fear, playing […]
In Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, Christian is the main character in the story. He has a magical shield of faith which makes him invincible with one caveat he has to head straight towards his problems, and keep his shield in front of him. If he goes straight towards his challenges he defeats them, but if he turns around […]
What determines how far a stone from a slingshot will fly? The answer is how far back you’ve pulled the band of the slingshot. If you study the lives of people who have made a difference, you will find that often their success was not in spite of the life challenges but because of them. They took […]
In any given moment you have a choice you can step forward towards God’s call into growth or you can step back into safety. Esther was given that opportunity by her Uncle Mordecai when he said you have been made Queen for such a time as this. Ananias made the same decision to move forward […]
Great performance does not come instantaneously, it’s like planting a rose bush you don’t get something extraordinary next day. We need to cultivate it, pruning is required, we need to give it time. Even when it starts to grow it does not show up in full bloom it goes through a process. So do we […]
We need to learn to fail or fail to learn. In fact we need to learn how to fail well. The greatest people in history the ones we admire the most are members of the ultimate hall of fame but they also members of the failure hall of failure. Moses ran away to the wilderness, Elijah was depressed, Gideon was hiding in […]
When NASA ventured into space they trained their astronauts not to panic. John Glen was the first US astronaut to orbit earth. His heart rate never went over 100 heartbeats a minute, can you believe it? This guy in outer space is completely calm on his mission and yet when we invite someone to church […]
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