The Antidote for Failure

The Antidote for Failure

The battle is for your mind and your mindset is the battle-plan.  Your mindset will do for you what caffeine cannot.  It is not that hot cup coffee that jump starts your day.  It is your mindset that determines your level of grit, motivation, and desire because mindset is attitude and it is your attitude that shapes how you will engage with each moment you live throughout the day. Mindsets are the root for building character and just as our bodies grow through maturity, the same holds true for character.  Let’s look at two opposing mindsets that I call “The…
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Stand firm

Stand firm

Arthur Mendelson was a patient in the Fairfax Hospital Psychiatric Ward in 1969, the very hospital Hunter Adams admitted himself into.  An orderly was showing Hunter around when Arthur abruptly interrupted the tour by thrusting his hand in front of Hunter’s face and asked, “How many fingers do you see?!  Well…how many?”  Four was the answer Hunter gave.  Arthur grumbled, “Four!  Four?  Huh…another idiot.” The answer is obvious, isn’t it?  Someone shows you their hand and asks how many fingers there are, you count the fingers.   Try it.  Put your hand in front of your face.  How many fingers…
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What’s Really Going On?

What’s Really Going On?

Don’t you just hate it when your enemy gets credit for helping others? The audacity that they would even think to help others when they have done you wrong! They cannot be allowed to continue offering free medical care to those sick with COVID-19 because you are offended! As crazy as it sounds, this exact thing is happening right now. Pay close attention to the growing opposition instigated by the LGBTQ against Samaritan’s Purse for their field hospital in New York City’s Central Park. They are aware that Samaritan’s Purse was asked to deploy their resources on American soil yet…
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Just Your Imagination?

Just Your Imagination?

Tales of monsters under the bed and in the closet will keep a young child up at night afraid to go to sleep for fear of being consumed before morning.  Heart begins to pound and thump in the ears. The child tries to make sense of the dark and begins to see things that are not there?   “Mom did say that if I dared to leave my room before morning that the monsters under the bed will eat me, but she didn’t say anything about those poisonous snakes that now surround my bed!” The child screams for mom to save…
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The Cry of the Impoverished!

The Cry of the Impoverished!

Judges 6: 1-12 Impoverished people cry out for help and warriors hear their cry! The people of Israel were suffering under the power of Midian. Their story is told in the Bible in Judges chapters 6-9. For 7 years the Midianites invaded the land of Israel to ravage it, “And the Israelite's cried out to the Lord for help!”(Judges 6:7). There is a cry going up to God out of the mouths of God’s people in Canada. This cry is a cry of “What is wrong with our country?”. Charles Colson in his book The Good Life (Tyndale 2005) speaks…
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