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Setbacks

Great leaders endure great challenges, but the outcome is always the same.

Today is a Great Day

We must not forget the need to be full of gratitude, joy, and love right now.

Great Expectations

It’s not just people who are influenced by how they talk to themselves.

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Talking to Yourself

Are you limiting your future with self-imposed prophecy?

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Welcome to the Feast

To lead like Jesus, we should cultivate a climate of hospitality.

What Could Go Right?

Does your first thought tend to be“what could go wrong?” It’s time to retrain your instincts.

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Cooperating with God

Do we decide what is possible for God?

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Perfectly Imperfect

Perfection and beauty are not the same thing. Isn’t that a relief?

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Communicating with Beauty

Sometimes plain words aren’t enough to engage the heart.

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Created to Make Beautiful Things

When we create beauty, we are practicing a hospitality rooted in God himself.

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Hospitable Leaders Create Beauty

Beauty is integral to creating a hospitable environment.

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Are You Ready to Make History?

This world needs people who care . . . who want something great . . . and are willing to go after it.

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Creating a Better Future

Leaders best serve people when we engage them in a great moral cause.

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Possibilities are Hints from God

God insists that we participate in bringing what He says is possible to pass.

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The Future Inside You

Each person has things inside that will not exist unless he or she creates them.

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Hospitable Leaders Make a Difference

How can I lead effectively in this environment? How can I best affect positive change?

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Hospitable Leaders Recognize Their Potential to Transcend

We have the inborn power to influence the environments of our lives and others’ lives, to change the way things are….

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Hospitable Leaders Embrace Their Destiny

Every human being is born with the incredible capacity to impact his world, regardless of how bad things may seem or how helpless they feel.

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Hospitable Leaders Need High Hope Levels

You cannot afford not to be hopeful. But God gives us reason to hope.

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When Jesus Really Loves Us, Sometimes He Waits

Sometimes Jesus doesn't do what we ask because He has something much better in mind.

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