Archives For Brian Del Turco

new growth

It’s in the new growth that development occurs. The older growth supports life and provides a “foundation” for the new. Yet it is the fresh growth that releases more development.

We need unique life-voices … emerging voices …

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new life

Is something sick or dead in your world? A relationship. Personal finances. A business. Well-being. A cause or mission you care about.

Peter, moving in the very life and methods of Jesus, shows us 3 key Kingdom dynamics in seeing someone (or something) raised to new life …

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein: Non-Conformist Thinking

TrueNorth Quest

Traffic numbers aren’t everything. But it is fascinating to get a window into what’s popular on your blog, where the readers are coming from, and how the readership is growing.

Last year was the first full calendar year for TrueNorth Quest. The annual report is in! Here are some of the 2012 stats provided by WordPress.

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Martin Luther King Leadership Insights – Hyatt Podcast (click thru)

Martin Luther King Day is celebrated on the third Monday of each January in the United States. MLK was the foremost leader of the civil rights movement in the 1960′s. In this podcast Michael Hyatt offers 8 key leadership insights we can glean from his life and work.

 

You’re designed to live a life that only you can live. Singular.

Here’s a sure-fire plan for misery: chase others’ dreams in place of your own. Marching in someone else’s parade is not good for anyone. It robs the Larger Story of YOU.

Dreams. They’re personal … between you and the Creator.

You don’t need to be a hero. The big man.

You have the chance to walk with everyone else in the journey, appreciating the diversity of it all …

You want to fight your fight.

We all do.

scabbard

We can’t be sharp if we stay in the scabbard all the time …

Who likes to practice? It’s hidden. There are others things we give up to practice. We contend privately. It’s so daily. Weekly. At times wearying.

Yet there’s deeper joy to be discovered in the journey. Practicing is it’s own reward. It’s where limits are pushed. A price is paid. It’s where authentic confidence is established. Public execution and victory are secured.

So what are you practicing?

If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed. (Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV)

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