Monthly Archives: April 2010

P90X and the Power to Change

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“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.” Winston Churchill Somewhere along the way last year, after turning 50 and getting on the scales to see I weighed more than ever in my natural life, I made a choice.  I chose to stop thinking things like, “Well, after all, you are 50, and you have an artificial hip, and you know, you have a desk job.”  I had all these reasons to do nothing. Oh, …

Seth Godin on Movements and Change from TRIBES

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If you do not know the name Seth Godin you should.  While not a follower of Christ, Godin understands movements better than many Christian leaders I know. His book Tribes is must reading for leaders in our world of social media and networking. In the following I offer not a review of his book, albeit I have both positive and negative criticism of it. Instead I have lifted a series of quotes  under key headings. I hope you can thus …

Drummond Lecture Series – Midwestern Seminary – Part 2

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Last week Dr. Reid was at Midwestern Seminary in Kansas City, MO and delivered their Drummond Lecture Series. The second of two audio files is featured below.

Drummond Lectures – Midwestern Seminary

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Last week Dr. Reid was at Midwestern Seminary in Kansas City, MO and delivered their Drummond Lecture Series. The first of two audio files is featured below.

Awareness — Leaders of Movements See the Need to Change

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The following study offers insights into self-awareness: “One Saturday in 2000, some unsuspecting moviegoers showed up at a suburban theater in Chicago to catch a 1:05 P.M matinee…. They were handed a soft drink and a free bucket of popcorn and asked to stick around after the movie to answer a few questions about the concession stand. “There was something unusual about the popcorn they received. It was wretched. In fact, it had been carefully engineered to be wretched. It’d …