For some reason, every dream I have about going to the bathroom is a bad dream. I’ve had dreams of bathrooms that are filthy, flooded, with weird shaped toilets, with too many people around, with no doors, with doors that do not lock, with multiple doors that pop open, in a creepy basement, in an old shack on a cliff, in a maze that I can’t find…
Author: Joyful
There are many things in the book Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret that have greatly encouraged me and given me deeper understanding of life in Christ. This biography is written by Howard and Geraldine Taylor, Hudson’s son and daughter in law, a condensed version of a two-volume biography.
Here are some highlights for me:
While conversion to Islam is a concern to many Christians, implicit in the study is that birth rate also will play a part in Islam’s accelerated growth. According to Pew Research, Muslims have the highest fertility rate globally – an average of 3.1 children per woman; Christians are second, at 2.7 children per woman. The “replacement” level – the minimum typically needed to maintain a stable population – is 2.1 children per woman. – from OneNewsNow
Pastor A asked if I would like to read Drucker and Me. Being that my husband and I are in business, he thought I would like the book. Peter Drucker, known as the guru of management, was required reading in any management class of my generation. I don’t know about now, but his principles and insights still holds true today.
From Jesus Calling by Sarah Young:
“Walk by faith, not by sight…When I gave you My Spirit, I empowered you to live beyond your natural ability and strength. That’s why it is so wrong to measure your energy level against the challenges ahead of you. The issue is not your strength but Mine, which is limitless. By walking close to Me, you can accomplish My purposes in My strength.” – March 11
On leadership: Is it more important what you do or who you are?
“The best thing you can bring to leadership is your own transforming self.” – forgot where I heard that.
I said I would read one book at a time, but I broke that rule. There are so many books I want to read. So I buy them and read a couple of chapters from each.
I bought several Francis and Lisa Chan’s new book You and Me Forever to support their ministry.
Some quotes I like:
I’m reading/listening to this. Here are some ideas that stood out to me:
“What is leadership itself? What does it mean to lead people?” Here is a simple definition, that leadership at its heart involves change. It involves movement. Leadership is movement. The leaders help people to move from where they are to a better place in the purposes of God.
I was talking to my pastor today and we are both people with ideas!
If we have unlimited resources in money and manpower, it would be our Disneyland! It would be so fun to do everything that we envision our church can do.
We want our church to have impact, not numbers, a church that…
Job, in all his suffering, never denied God. Yet, something was missing. It wasn’t enough just to persevere in our believe in God.
In his book on prayer, Tim Keller says,
Throughout most of the great Old Testament book that bears his name, Job cries out to God in agonized prayer. For all his complaints…