“Career is what you’re paid for, but a calling is what you’re made for.”
- Bob Shank
Archive for the ‘Illustrations’ Category
Career vs. Calling
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Understanding the Trinity
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Here’s the beautiful thing: you don’t need to fully understand the Trinity to worship the Trinity, pray to the Trinity, and enter into the life of the Trinity.
They tell me that deep within the core of the sun, the temperature is 27 million degrees. The pressure is 340 billion times what it is here on Earth. And in the sun’s core, that insanely hot temperature and unthinkable pressure combine to create nuclear reactions. In each reaction, 4 protons fuse together to create 1 alpha particle, which is .7 percent less massive than the 4 protons. The difference in mass is expelled as energy, and after one million years, through a process called convection, this energy from the core of the sun finally reaches the surface, where it’s expelled as heat and light.
Now that was all kind of interesting, but you know what? I didn’t need to know all that in order to get a tan.
Are you lonely at the top?
Friday, May 2nd, 2008“If you’re leading others and you’re lonely, you’re not doing it right. Think about it. If you’re all alone, that means nobody is following you. And if nobody is following you, you’re not really leading.”
- John Maxwell, Leadership Gold: Lessons I’ve Learned From a Lifetime of Leading (Thomas Nelson, 2008)