
Peer Pressure - Exodus 7-10
Three times Pharaoh tried to negotiate with God, and three times Moses flat out refused.

Walking through grief with Jesus

In Jim Colin’s book, Good to Great, the first ingredient of a good to great company is having a level 5 leader.Their definition of that leader is someone with humility and professional will for the enterprise or mission.As much as leadership requires good communication skills, there is a lot to say about being quiet and rolling up your sleeves to work.

Our whole life we work hard to make a better living, an easier journey with lots of fun with minimal suffering and pain. But each time we find ourselves getting stronger through the time of adversity and not a time of ease.

When I was a kid, my dad used to tell me stories about successful investors losing money prior to achieving great fortune. Though I am not looking for great fortune, I am working toward being a successful investor.

Numerous factors contribute to financial success: consistent saving, prudent risk management, strategic asset allocation, and avoiding common pitfalls like excessive debt or emotional decision-making. Yet, the single most powerful ingredient remains the time value of money—more precisely, the exponential force of compounding.

Admiral Stockdale was the highest ranking Unitied States officer at a prisoner of war camp during the Vietnam War, called “Hanoi Hilton”.He was tortured over twenty times during his eight years of imprisonment.In camp, he developed systems and methods to communicate with the others. They encouraged each other to persist by sending codes at different junctures of the torture experience.

God designed our brains like sophisticated computers: garbage in, garbage out. What we repeatedly feed our minds becomes the operating system for our lives.

True leadership, whether at home, in business, or in life, begins with a servant heart. The greatest leaders and the greatest parents are those who give themselves away in love.

This is the premise of the entire psalm. The words “very present” have a footnote that say it can also mean “well proved”. God has proved Himself to be our protection and endurance whenever we are in trouble.

Speaking is the most effective tool a man has in his arsenal. This is one of the most talked about truths, commands, promises, and powers in the Bible, and I’ve only just started to really see it.

In all that happened, the people would not turn to God. Instead they kept turning to Pharaoh, the one who was putting work on them while simultaneously telling them that they were lazy!
God’s Smuggler It was Jessca’s favorite book to read and recommend. She even wrote a blurb about it (Post #10): “If you enjoy adventure and thrills, I highly recommend God's Smuggler (it's so good, I've lost track of how many times I've read it . It also has a bit of drama and romance if you're into that).”Even though I’ve read it many times, this book never fails to make me laugh. Here’s one story I read on the bus today. Brother Andrew, a Dutchman, just started his first semester at a missionary school in England:“And so began one of the hardest two-month periods of my life...What made the two months difficult was learning English. I worked so hard on the language that my head continually ached…I was up with the first bird song, dressed, and out in the garden with two books in my hand. One was an English Bible; the other was a dictionary. It was doubtless an excellent technique, but it did have some disadvantages. My English during that period was filled with thees, thous, and verily. One time I passed on a request for butter by saying, “Thus sayeth the neighbor of Andrew, that thou wouldst be pleased to pass the butter.”
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