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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It’s precisely that simple, and it’s also that difficult.
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words.
Create safe spaces where children can explore and play independently, such as parks or backyards, allowing them to develop confidence and problem-solving skills without constant supervision.
Racism, genocide, and suicide bombing are all manifestations of groupishness. They are not things that people do in order to outcompete their local peers; they are things people do to help their groups outcompete other groups.
Trauma robs you of the feeling that you are in charge of yourself, of what I will call self-leadership.
The chapter offers a framework for separating enduring norms from local practices: prioritize appeals to creation as transcultural, carry forward what later Scripture restates, and recognize divine abrogations (e.g., OT dietary laws) when explicitly given. Jesus models this by resolving the divorce dispute not by rabbinic custom but by returning to creation (Mt 19:4–6), implying that creation ordinances bind unless later revelation modifies them. This also clarifies institutions: Scripture calls believers to submit within existing civic structures (Rom 13:1) without endorsing them, yet it positively institutes marital authority patterns, so we must not equate marriage structures with slavery when assessing cultural conditioning.
To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
To expose blind spots, draft your interpretation with reasons, then switch roles with a peer: have them read the text aloud while you audit each inferential step against the author’s stated reasons, not your reconstructions; probe whether your application rests on creation ordinances, explicit restatements, or explicit abrogations; and, if uncertainty persists after thorough analysis (e.g., Luke 10:4; John 13:3–17; 1 Cor 11), practice the humility principle by treating the doubtful case as a principle in your own obedience without binding others’ consciences. This role reversal operationalizes the text’s warning about self-deception and typically surfaces where cultural inferences have displaced authorial argument.
When the author disappears and only the text remains, the written piece stands as a public claim on truth governed by coherence and evidence, not by the writer’s status. In scholarly practice, everything orients toward some form of publication—review, handouts, drafts—so presentation and production of knowledge are two sides of the same coin (Peters and Schäfer 2006, 9). This overturns the conventional, reading-first model of study: if truth emerges from the exchange of written ideas, then research is inseparable from writing, and students should study by drafting arguments fit for public scrutiny. The implication is concrete and operational: write to make claims testable, organize notes to withstand peer discussion, and treat every idea as incomplete until it is on the page and connected to facts.
Until we master the courage and the skills needed to engage in conversations that help accomplish the goals of our shared civilization, we will move away from greatness, not toward it.
The ego, that inner neurotic who insists on running the mental show...stands between us and some striking new dimensions of experience.
When you love those in need, you are loving Jesus.
You have to think about how you’re going to run a meeting, how you’re going to run an operations review.
A more resilient confidence comes from succeeding—and from surviving some failures.
All men who happen to be in authority assert that their authority is necessary to keep the bad from oppressing the good, assuming that they themselves are the good par excellence, who protect other good people from the bad.
Dependencies — A dependency between two or more parts of a system is only desirable if the dependency is clear and obvious. When it is not clear what code depends on another, even simple changes to the system will take a long time and there would be a high risk of bugs showing up after deploying to production.
When facing conflicts, ask, “Is there a solution that is better than either of us has in mind?” This question opens the door to creative collaboration and innovative solutions.
In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see.
Having more control over your time and options is becoming one of the most valuable currencies in the world. That’s why more people can, and more people should, save money.
