I read an essay from a book for the well-known coach John Wooden and got the following sights.
It's said that nowadays many just talked of performances and so pressure arises.
But what's more important and really matter is our having patience.
So the three Ps are more of Patience first rather than Performances under Pressures.
Then I just think of the following three questions,how can we coordinate well for these three ?
Do we lose patience with poor performance under pressure ?
Do we get better performance without pressure with more patience ?
Can we pressure ourselves for better performances together with patience ?
2011年1月20日 星期四
EPA in Numbers 9-10
I read Raymond Brown's book on Numbers of the BST series this morning.
I happened to find his exposition of ch 9-10 with the title of Three Dimensional Grace.
What he emphasized as the key words shown are Encouragement(E)from the past,Priorities (P)in the present and Assurances(A)for the future.
This is not Economics and Public Affairs (EPA) as we learnt in High school years BUT God's abundant provisons for His chosen people in the past as well as in we Churches these days.
Do we have encouragements in our past walk with the Spirit,
Experiencing His disciplined prirorities in our daily lives now and have
Loving assurances from our Heavenly Father as we face up tomorrow ?
It's really important to have these EPAs to be our new perspective.
I happened to find his exposition of ch 9-10 with the title of Three Dimensional Grace.
What he emphasized as the key words shown are Encouragement(E)from the past,Priorities (P)in the present and Assurances(A)for the future.
This is not Economics and Public Affairs (EPA) as we learnt in High school years BUT God's abundant provisons for His chosen people in the past as well as in we Churches these days.
Do we have encouragements in our past walk with the Spirit,
Experiencing His disciplined prirorities in our daily lives now and have
Loving assurances from our Heavenly Father as we face up tomorrow ?
It's really important to have these EPAs to be our new perspective.
2011年1月17日 星期一
2011年1月12日 星期三
On the 3 Es
The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC) is John Stott's invention.
This morning I received a recent note from their news.One is about their student ministry as follows:
Big Weekend: Equipping and Envisioning the Student Generation of the Church in the UK (11-13 Feb 2011)
I happened to take note of the key words in the title mentioned : equipping,envisioning and myself at once to add on a more conspicuous word empowering as used often these days everywhere. And so I got finally these 3 E s, i.e. Equipping, Envisioning and Empowering.
Are these three also what's mostly needed in our church nourishing and discipling ministries ?
This morning I received a recent note from their news.One is about their student ministry as follows:
Big Weekend: Equipping and Envisioning the Student Generation of the Church in the UK (11-13 Feb 2011)
I happened to take note of the key words in the title mentioned : equipping,envisioning and myself at once to add on a more conspicuous word empowering as used often these days everywhere. And so I got finally these 3 E s, i.e. Equipping, Envisioning and Empowering.
Are these three also what's mostly needed in our church nourishing and discipling ministries ?
2011年1月3日 星期一
From The Wisdom of Small Creatures -- New Year Wonder and Simplicity
The Wisdom of Small Creatures (Proverbs 30:24-28) By Haddon Robinson
Introduction
I. The Ant knows what Time it is 螞蟻
II. Coneys know where their Security lies 沙番
III Locusts know they must work in Community 蝗虫
IV The lizard illustrates the incongruity of Grace 守宮
Christians Must
Learn to value the times 把握時機
Recognize the source of their security 安穩之源
Prioritize community, and 融入社群
Adopt God's seemingly incongruous perspective. 收納奧妙
Conclusion
Simplicity and Wonder By Roy Lessin
Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive and accept and welcome the kingdom of God like a little child [does] positively shall not enter it at all. Mark 10:15
As we begin our walk with God in 2011 we need to guard our hearts against certain attitudes that will keep us far from His heart. These include the mind of the proud who wants to know it all; the opinion of the critic who wants to judge it all; the attitude of the narcissist who wants to be it all; the desire of the covetous who wants to have it all.
Instead, walk with God in 2011 as a child. Never lose the simplicity of trust and the world of wonder that a child lives in from day to day. Walk with your eyes on your Father
— happy in His presence, content in His care, awed by His greatness, delighted by His surprises, secure in His love.
Let your prayer be similar to one spoken by Vance Havner, “Lord, let me never get used to living. Keep afresh in my heart a childlike wonder. Above all, let me never get used to being a Christian. Let me walk with a constant sense of surprise and expectancy. Why should there be a dull moment in the life of a Christian when every hour is a fresh adventure in faith and love?”
The following quote became the signature of the life of Gypsy Smith, the well known evangelist who lived into his eighties, “I have never lost the wonder.” May you never lose the simplicity of trusting His love and the wonder of watching Him work in marvelous ways.
Introduction
I. The Ant knows what Time it is 螞蟻
II. Coneys know where their Security lies 沙番
III Locusts know they must work in Community 蝗虫
IV The lizard illustrates the incongruity of Grace 守宮
Christians Must
Learn to value the times 把握時機
Recognize the source of their security 安穩之源
Prioritize community, and 融入社群
Adopt God's seemingly incongruous perspective. 收納奧妙
Conclusion
Simplicity and Wonder By Roy Lessin
Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive and accept and welcome the kingdom of God like a little child [does] positively shall not enter it at all. Mark 10:15
As we begin our walk with God in 2011 we need to guard our hearts against certain attitudes that will keep us far from His heart. These include the mind of the proud who wants to know it all; the opinion of the critic who wants to judge it all; the attitude of the narcissist who wants to be it all; the desire of the covetous who wants to have it all.
Instead, walk with God in 2011 as a child. Never lose the simplicity of trust and the world of wonder that a child lives in from day to day. Walk with your eyes on your Father
— happy in His presence, content in His care, awed by His greatness, delighted by His surprises, secure in His love.
Let your prayer be similar to one spoken by Vance Havner, “Lord, let me never get used to living. Keep afresh in my heart a childlike wonder. Above all, let me never get used to being a Christian. Let me walk with a constant sense of surprise and expectancy. Why should there be a dull moment in the life of a Christian when every hour is a fresh adventure in faith and love?”
The following quote became the signature of the life of Gypsy Smith, the well known evangelist who lived into his eighties, “I have never lost the wonder.” May you never lose the simplicity of trusting His love and the wonder of watching Him work in marvelous ways.
2011年1月2日 星期日
Quotes from Aspire by Kevin Hall
The masters in the art of living make little distinction between their work and their play, their labour and their leisure, their minds and their bodies, their information, their recreation, their love and their religion. They hardly know which is which; they simply pursue their vision of excellence at whatever they do, leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing. –James A. Michener-
11 words
Genshai
Never treat anyone small
Pathfinder
Leader
Namaste
Saluting the divine within
Passion
Suffering for what you love most
Sapere Vedere
Knowing how to see
Humility
Being coachable and teachable
Inspire
Breathing life into another
Empathy
Walking the path of another
Coach
Carrying another
Ollin
Moving forward with all your heart
Integrity
Whole and complete
11 Quotes
If I have no other qualities I can succeed with love alone. Without it I will fail though I possess all the knowledge and skills of the world. I will greet this day with love in my heart. –Og Mandino-
The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred…unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. –William Hutchinson Murray-
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else---means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight. –E.E. Cummings-
This is the core of human spirit… If we can find something to live for---If we can find something to put at the centre of our lives---even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable. –Viktor Frankl—
The eye is the window of the soul – Leonardo Da Vinci –
To keep the lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. --Mother Teresa—
In everyone’s life, at sometime, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. – Albert Schweitzer—
To be able to put oneself in another ‘s position,to be able to see and feel as another person does,that is the rare gift. – Mata Amritanandamayi—
Help thy brother’s boat across and lo ! Thine own has reached the shore. – Hindu Proverb –
It is not light that we need but fire;
It is not the gentle shower,but thunder.
We need the storm,the whirlwind,and the earthquake. –Frederick Douglas –
Living a life of integrity starts with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality, the senses, the thinking, the feeling, the intuition, are ultimately integrated and harmonized. Stephen Covey-
11 words
Genshai
Never treat anyone small
Pathfinder
Leader
Namaste
Saluting the divine within
Passion
Suffering for what you love most
Sapere Vedere
Knowing how to see
Humility
Being coachable and teachable
Inspire
Breathing life into another
Empathy
Walking the path of another
Coach
Carrying another
Ollin
Moving forward with all your heart
Integrity
Whole and complete
11 Quotes
If I have no other qualities I can succeed with love alone. Without it I will fail though I possess all the knowledge and skills of the world. I will greet this day with love in my heart. –Og Mandino-
The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred…unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. –William Hutchinson Murray-
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else---means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight. –E.E. Cummings-
This is the core of human spirit… If we can find something to live for---If we can find something to put at the centre of our lives---even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable. –Viktor Frankl—
The eye is the window of the soul – Leonardo Da Vinci –
To keep the lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. --Mother Teresa—
In everyone’s life, at sometime, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. – Albert Schweitzer—
To be able to put oneself in another ‘s position,to be able to see and feel as another person does,that is the rare gift. – Mata Amritanandamayi—
Help thy brother’s boat across and lo ! Thine own has reached the shore. – Hindu Proverb –
It is not light that we need but fire;
It is not the gentle shower,but thunder.
We need the storm,the whirlwind,and the earthquake. –Frederick Douglas –
Living a life of integrity starts with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality, the senses, the thinking, the feeling, the intuition, are ultimately integrated and harmonized. Stephen Covey-
2011年1月1日 星期六
10 Bible Promises for the New Year !
1. He still loves you with an everlasting love. Jeremiah 31:3
2. His blood still has power to cleanse from all sin. I John 1:7
3. He still blesses you with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Ephesians 1:3
4. He still provides. Philippians 4:19
5. He is still working out His plan. Ephesians 1:11
6. He is still faithful. Isaiah 49:7
7. His promises still are true. 2 Corinthians 1:20
8. His mercies still are present and new every morning. Lamentations 3:22
9. His grace still is abound. Romans 5:20
10. God still is on the throne.Psalm 47:8
2. His blood still has power to cleanse from all sin. I John 1:7
3. He still blesses you with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Ephesians 1:3
4. He still provides. Philippians 4:19
5. He is still working out His plan. Ephesians 1:11
6. He is still faithful. Isaiah 49:7
7. His promises still are true. 2 Corinthians 1:20
8. His mercies still are present and new every morning. Lamentations 3:22
9. His grace still is abound. Romans 5:20
10. God still is on the throne.Psalm 47:8
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