From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill When I surveyed some of my friends and readers, I found that almost 90 percent of them said that there was a time in their lives when they knew what God wanted them to do. Some of their experiences appear in this book. […]
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From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird The way of discernment begins with prayer. Praying means breaking through the veil of existence and allowing yourself to be led by the vision that has become real to you, whatever you call that vision –
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A series of articles by Kaitlin Curtice Read the first one here
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From “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” by Peter F. Drucker The industries that fueled the long economic expansion after World War II – automobiles, steel, rubber, electrical apparatus, consumer electronics, telephone, but also petroleum – perfectly fit the Kondratieff cycle. Technologically, all of them go back to the fourth quarter of the nineteenth century or, at the
By Mark Schafer I believe that the needs identified here are increasingly applicable across the age spectrum, but I totally understand why that is even more the case for Gen-Z. Read the free article here
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From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Most of us tend to think about trust in terms of character – of being a good or sincere person or of having ethics or integrity. And character is absolutely foundational and essential. But as I suggested in the
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From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson The snap judgments of intuition – as powerful as they can be – are rarities in the history of world-changing ideas. Most hunches that turn into important innovations unfold over much longer time frames. They start with a vague, hard-to-describe sense
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From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner THE NEXT WINTER I sat in Army fatigues somewhere near Anniston, Alabama, eating my supper out of a mess kit. The infantry training battalion that I had been assigned to was on bivouac. There was a cold drizzle of rain, and everything
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