We search the world for truth: we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful
From graven stone and written scroll:
And, weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our Mothers read.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The Bible is the Constitution of Christian civilization.
~ Gordon Palmer, in By Freedom’s Holy Light (NY: Devin-Adair Co., 1964), page 4
It is impossible rightly to govern the world without God and the Bible.
~ George Washington
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we or our prosperity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
~ Daniel Webster
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Where do you turn in Scripture when you need inspiration? When the developers of the Bible Promises iPhone application released an edition that let users “favorite” particular passages they found that the verses most loved by users were Isaiah 40:31; Deuteronomy 31:6; Psalms 103:2-3; Galatians 6:9; and Philippians 4:6.
What Scripture passages would appear on your list of favorites?
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Once upon a time there was an inspirational story. It was longer than it needed to be, not really all that accurate, and sappier than Mrs. Butterworth’s, but it was a story.
Then it was transcribed onto an email and sent out to someone.
Then it was sent out to every person int that person’s address book.
Then it was forwarded again to every person in all of those people’s address books, some of whom had already seen it.
Some people complained about getting to much junk mail, but they forwarded the email to everyone else in their address book anyway because the note said to do so or else they would be labelled as a person of moral turpitude.
A few months later the United States, China, and the other members of the G8 surrendered to underdevelopped nations in Africa. It seems that the internet, their communications backbone, was paralyzed by an exponentially growing amount of email that, while inspiring, was clogging the internet so much that nobody could think of anything else nor could they get any real emails.
“And that,” said Mbutu to the crown prince, “Is how we took over the world.”
(HT: A.S. Hodel)
I have been listening to a series of leadership CDs published by Willow Creek Resources. One of the CDs from his series, entitled The Leadership Summit on Developing Teams, features Ken Blanchard. His session was on “Developing People: Giving and Receiving Feedback.”
In the course of his presentation he made the following statement:
“The number one leadership style in the world is called seagull management, … most managers aren’t around until something is wrong, and then they fly in, make a lot of noise, dump on everybody, and then fly out.”
The audience roared with laughter. I think there were a couple of reason why they, and I, found it to be humorous. (1) It was a great visual. There is no way to NOT see the metaphor. (2) It applies all too often.
To those of you who are manager I would ask the following question; “Have you been practicing seagull leadership?” Would we get the same answer if we asked your direct reports rather than you?
I was tagged again for the nearest book meme. Here are the rules:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
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