Jesus does not sit on the sideline of our life, ready to come in to give His take on our challenges. He’s not there to tell us how great we are, and that if we try hard enough, and just believe in ourselves, we can win.
George Herman “Babe” Ruth (1895 – 1948) was a professional baseball player whose career spanned 22 seasons. He’s one of the greatest heroes in American culture and considered the greatest baseball player of all time.
Leadership is not a set of character traits. You can have integrity, honesty, initiative, compassion–any number of positive and godly personal values, and still not be a leader (though character and leadership are closely related).
How do you look at the world? Some see the problems first, while others see the opportunities. Scripture instructs that Christ-followers are to go through life as optimists.
What will you do of significance with the 80-or-so years you have? When we’re young we have all the time in the world. And once we realize that isn’t true, we never have enough left to do anything with it.
Life and work at some level are to be about reaching, striving, pushing forward. God did not put us on the earth to do nothing with our lives. Yet that is exactly what many men are doing in our culture.
Alan Roger Mulally (1945 - ) is an American aerospace engineer and former President and CEO of the Ford Motor Company. He also served as Executive Vice President of Boeing and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Mulally was No. 3 on Fortune’s list of the World’s Greatest Leaders.
Today’s leader is bombarded by philosophies for life and work that are in direct opposition to the teachings of the Bible. You may think Jesus said some of these pieces of modern “wisdom,” but He never did.