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What Are You Doing With The Word of God?

Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468) invented the moveable type printing press in 1454 or 1455, in Mainz, Germany. The first significant book printed on his press was the Gutenberg Bible, which is also known as the “Mazarin Bible.” 

In discussing the amazing machine he developed, Gutenberg wrote:

God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word cannot reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books which confine instead of spread the public treasure. Let us break the seal which seals up holy things and give wings to Truth in order that she may win every soul that comes into the world be her word no longer written at great expense by hands easily palsied, but multiplied like the wind by an untiring machine.

Yes, it is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of man. Through it, God will spread His word; a spring of truth shall flow from it; like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light hithertofore unknown to shine among men.

We've come a long way since Gutenberg's initial foray in to the printed scriptures, and his dream of making the Word of God available for the masses has been realized.

The Best You Can Do...

 

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I've heard it said.

Maybe you've said it yourself.

To be honest, I know I've said it!

"That's the best I can do."

If you're like me you know that whatever it is, it really isn't the best you can do, right?

The fact is, the best we say we can do isn't really the best we can do, is it?

What will you do better today? (I've made it simple to Tweet - Just click HERE!)

10 Ways to Donate (Safely!) After Sandy

Hurricane Sandy has passed, but the devastation remains. 

There's a big mess to clean up and millions of people who need help.

You've decided you want to step up to the plate and donate to the cause.

Good on you!

Good people from around the world are stepping up to the plate to lend a hand. 

Sadly, when disasters strike, bad people rise to the occasion along with the good, looking for ways to add to victimize those who've come to help. 

10 Propositions About Time

1. Time is a precious commodity.
2. Time can be neither bought nor sold. 
3. Time cannot be reproduced or repeated.
4. Time cannot be duplicated; every moment is unique to itself.
5. Time affects us all.
6. Once time is past, it's gone forever.
7. Worrying about wasting time or the time we've wasted is, in and of itself, a waste of time.
8. We can make the most of our time or least of our time, but we cannot make time.
   
9. Time passes, despite the presence or lack of activity.
   
10. There's no time like the present and there's no present like the time.

How's Your Hindsight?

He was imprisoned and his life was held in peril by an ungodly Roman emperor who answered to nobody but himself.

Miserable circumstances, indeed.

Limited rights.

Uncertainty.

No parole date.

No guarantee of a tomorrow.

Yet, Paul wrote with great confidence:

"Now I want you to know, brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel, so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else, and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear." (Philippians 1:12-14, NASB) 

20 Ways to Build Better Fitness Environment

From Leo Babauta at Zen Habits, here are 20 small actions you can take RIGHT NOW to create a health- and wellness-friendly environment:

1. 

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   Get rid of the snacks. Don’t keep them in your house or you’ll be more likely to eat them.
2. Don’t buy convenience food. You’re likely to eat this when you’re too tired to cook.
3. Instead, cook big batches of healthy food once a week. Have it in the fridge, ready to be heated up.
4. Take healthy snacks to work.
5. Create a healthy eating challenge with your coworkers.
6. Join Fitocracy (invite code: zenhabits) and make friends there. Log your activities.
7. Join a running club.
8. Find a workout partner.
9. Set up an appointment with your best friend to go walking or running every day.
10. Get a coach.
11. Set fitness challenges with your friends. Log them online, on Facebook or some other social site.
12. Have a chinup bar in your doorway, and do a chinup every time you walk by.
13. Join a sports team.
14. Have nuts and fruit with you when you’re on the go.
15. Make it hard to turn on the TV (put it in the closet or something).
16. Use a program like LeechBlock or Freedom to shut the Internet down at a certain time each day.
17. Have healthy potlucks with friends or family.
18. Publicly commit to posting body pics or measurements each week on your blog.
19. Make a list of healthy restaurants, or healthy meals at other restaurants, for when you feel like eating out.
20. Park farther away from things so you’ll walk more.

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Improving your fitness is much easier when you've built the right environment. Set up your winning self-improvement settings to include the right foods, easy-to-access exercise opportunities, and like-minded fitness partners.

Leadership Begins at Home

"Why do some of the sharpest leaders step up in the workplace but flake out when they walk into their home? Is it fatigue? Work overload? Or are they just out of their element?" (Dave Stone, Southeast Christian Church)

Those are good questions, aren't they? We've all read or heard stories of brilliant CEOs, industrial giants, and civic leaders who've failed at their primary roles as husbands and fathers.

We also know the stories of Average Joes like you and me who get so busy "providing" that they forget to provide what their mates and kids really need and crave--a close relationship with their husbands and kids.

Dave Stone, author of Building Family Ties with Faith, Love, and Laughter and Raising Your Kids to Love the Lord, suggests three critical times when you can lead your family in Leadership Begins at Home, over at Michael Hyatt's blog:

How to Break Out of Your Creative Rut

From our friends over at Copyblogger:

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Let Your Worry Go!

Are you providing a harbor for worry?

If so, recognize that worry is rarely useful. It generally causes much more harm than good.

As Seth Godin notes, "perhaps [your non-specific worry, or anxiety] is due to the fact that you're trying to control things that you can't possibly control."

If you can't control it, what do you possibly hope to achieve by worrying about it?

Consider what Jesus had to say about worry:

One Small Step ... One Giant Leap

Do you want to get more done?

Who doesn't?

Join the crowd.

You know what? There really is no big secret to doing more.

But there is a small step: Do the next BEST thing.

I don't mean do the thing that is next best, but rather the best thing that is next.

Don't procrastinate.

Don't overthink it.

Don't resist.

Don't try to make it perfect.

Don't fear.

Don't...whatever.

Just do it!

Do the next BEST thing.

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