The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.
Michael Hyatt
Hyatt on Comfort
McCracken on grace
That’s how grace works. It’s offensively asymmetrical.
Brett McCracken
Goff on choices
We don’t always get to pick the parable we’re living, but we get to pick who we are in the parable.
Bob Goff
Rickey on waiting
Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen.
Branch Rickey
De Sales on fear and love
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.
Saint Francis De Sales
Emerson on lies
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tolstoy on life and love
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.
Leo Tolstoy
10-day Small Group Prep Plan
The quality of your teaching and your learning is not dependent upon the curriculum.
Have your group members rank, at least in their minds, the importance of these components of their group experience: the student, the teacher, the outcome, the material.
10-Day preparation plan for your group gathering:
- Days 1-3: Discover the material, pray about the message, meditate on central truth.
- Days 4-5: Read the whole lesson thoroughly, pray about the message, meditate on the teaching aim
- Days 6-7: Prepare your lesson plan. (Day 6 in preparation is also Day 1 for next week’s lesson)
- Days 8:9: Review, Rehearse
- Day 10: Set-up & Execution
- Use your own life’s examples – be real and be honest
- Create value in the lesson – provide practical applications.
Tolstoy on family
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Carnegie on inaction
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
