Tiburones Pequeños, Medusas grandes (Mateo 25:21)

Cada vez que voy a nadar al océano, alguien inevitablemente me advierte: ¡Cuidado con los tiburones! Por supuesto que tengo cuidado, sin embargo nunca he visto uno. Ni siquiera he escuchado nunca la música “bom-bom-bom-bom” que suena cuando los tiburones se acercan. Esto es bueno, porque cuando escuchas esta música, probablemente ya es demasiado tarde.
Sin [...]

LOSING BY INTIMIDATION……1 John 4:4

Some 80 years ago, as Notre Dame was preparing to play USC in college football, Fighting Irish Coach Knute Rockne was aware that his opponent had a far better team, so he devised a plan to intimidate the Trojan players.
Rockne scoured the city of South Bend and hand-picked 100 of the largest men he could [...]

Making Music Instead / Mejor componiendo música

In the Ken Burns PBS series on jazz music, Duke Ellington was asked how it felt to be unable, due to segregation, to stay in the guest rooms of the hotel he and his band performed in. He said, “I took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
Lately I keep coming back [...]

NOTES ON LEADERSHIP

When John Wooden (former basketball coach of UCLA) graduated from grammar school his father gave him a Seven Point Creed to live by. Wooden stuck with it all his life; he said it served him well. Here it is:
* Be true to yourself.
* Make each day your masterpiece.
* Help others.
* Drink deeply from good books, [...]

THE WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Andy Stanley makes a great statement about God’s timing : We look at our watches; God looks at the calendar.
Waiting on God is difficult lesson for believers to learn. By nature we’re not patient, and our culture offers little encouragement to develop the habit. We want, we need, we think we deserve everything now.
Remember that [...]