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PASSION After flying as a flight attendant for 63 years, Ron Akana decided to retire at the age of 83. What do you think he plans to do in his retirement years? He plans to spend it traveling, of course. While I can’t say for sure, it strikes me that this man has a passion for traveling. What do you…

Kim Peek is the man who inspired the 1988 film Rain Man about an autistic savant with astounding mathematical skills. Peek is what doctors call a mega-savant. A savant possesses remarkable expertise in 1 to 3 subjects. Peek is an expert in at least 15, including history, sports, space, music, and geography.…

There is a tale told of that great English actor Macready. An eminent preacher once said to him: “I wish you would explain to me something.” “Well, what is it? I don't know that I can explain anything to a preacher.” “What is the reason for the difference between you and me? You are appearing before…

Is reading the Bible a necessary part of your day or does it have a low priority in your life? George Mueller, after having read the Bible through one hundred times with increasing delight, made this statement: “I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God. Friends…

Kim Peek is the man who inspired the 1988 film Rain Man about an autistic savant with astounding mathematical skills. Peek is what doctors call a mega-savant. A savant possesses remarkable expertise in 1 to 3 subjects. Peek is an expert in at least 15, including history, sports, space, music, and geography.…

He came barrelling out of the mountains of North Carolina way back in the early ‘30's. For the next 50+ years preaching, pastoring and writing were his primary occupations. He preached with such spiritual power and passion that thousands were converted. By the time I heard him, he was well up in his…

Subject God bless the church From wagardner Sent Friday, October 12, 2007 7:54 AM Usually when God intends greatly to bless a church, it will begin in this way: Two or three persons in it are distressed at the low state of affairs and become troubled even to anguish. Perhaps they do not speak to one…

Passion In his 84 years, Thomas Edison patented over a thousand inventions. He is most famous for inventing the light bulb, but made more money off the alkaline battery. Edison was a bulldog, unwilling to accept failure as a final outcome to his efforts. Before he successfully invented the alkaline battery,…

PRAYER, PASSION IN “All of us realize that prayer should not be dispassionate. As you read through the prayers of Scripture, notice the passion and intensity with which the person praying talked to God. In Psalm 51, a penitential psalm, David prayed with gut-wrenching passion. When Mary prayed the Magnificat…

When wanting to faint after years of fighting against slave trade William Wilberforce leaned upon the Lord for his strength. On his forty-first birthday, as rededicated himself to his calling, he prayed, “Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish…

Monkey Greed Be warned! A trapper in the African Congo devised a clever monkey trap using a hollow gourd into which peanuts were poured through a small hole. The monkey would reach in and grab the peanuts, but the hole was too small to remove his closed hand. Unwilling to release his treasure, the monkey…

Authors Robert J. Kriegel and Louis Patler cite a study of 1,500 people over twenty years that shows how passion makes a significant difference in a person’s career: At the outset of the study, the group was divided in Group A, 83 percent of the sample, who were embarking on a career chosen for the prospects…

But thank God for those who have a burning and blistering thirst and are willing to pay any price to satisfy it. We should be like the little girl who asked her mother for a drink of water three times in one night. Finally the mother said in an exasperated tone, “If you ask for water one more time, I…

There where a lot of notable wealthy people on the Titanic in 1912. But the most notable passenger on the Titanic was someone that most of the world has never heard of before. He was a man by the name of John Harper. He was a plan ordinary Pastor from the city of Glasgow, Scotland. He had faithfully…

Compassion is about the moment! It is about using what I have at hand—money, talent, encouragement, or a shoulder to cry on—to meet another person’s need. Compassion is about tears from heaven Science tells us there are three kinds of tears. (1) Basal tears flow continually into our eyes to lubricate…

Loving what you do is the key that opens the door for achievement. When you don’t like what you’re doing, it really shows—no matter how hard you try to pretend it doesn’t. You can become like the little boy named Eddie whose grandmother was an opera lover. She had season tickets, and when Eddie turned…

That little 9 X 20 ft. piece of real estate in the parking garage is getting more and more expensive. If you commute into downtown Chicago, your parking spot can cost an average of $332.00 per month. But that’s a bargain compared to midtown Manhattan where the average parking space goes for as much as…

by Dr. John C. Maxwell Of the original Fortune 500 companies listed in 1955, only 71 remain on the list today. Companies once deemed indestructible have fallen by the wayside. Corporate titans of enormous influence have completely disappeared in the span of a few decades. Staying power has been rare…

The story is told of General William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, and the day Queen Victoria of England asked to meet with him. Because she had heard so many favorable things about his work in the slums, she asked him for the secret of his success. “Your Majesty,” he replied, “Some men have…

One of the biggest challenges for leaders is keeping the mission and values of the organization in front of their leadership. These days most churches have a mission statement hanging on the wall somewhere. Most have a list of values printed in an employee handbook. But how do you keep that kind of information…

John Piper, pastor and author, defines a holy ambition as something that you really, really, really want to do—and that God wants you to do also. Some people would call this passion, but it’s passion under the lordship of Jesus Christ. What’s yours? Harris, Alex & Brett, Do Hard Things, Multnomah Books,…

Five years ago, chairs, iron bars, and fists flew on the roof of one of the most revered sites in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. When the dust cleared, 7 Ethiopian Orthodox monks and 4 Egyptian (Coptic) monks had been injured. The fight started when an Egyptian monk decided…

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep the streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."…

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

\\ The Dollars Are in the Way Henry Ford once asked an associate about his life goals. The man replied that his goal was to make a million dollars. A few days later Ford gave the man a pair of glasses made out of two silver dollars. He told the man to put them on and asked what he could see. "Nothing,"…