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Chapters of Life
Reality. Sometimes it hits you. After 5 years, my time with TeenPact Leadership School has come to a close. If you look back on your life you can identify different turning points that changed things profoundly for you even if they didn’t seem so significant in the moment. When I packed up for a week…
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Nothin’ Doin’
Remember that one young man in Judges who was so scared to take responsibility that he put out fleeces to determine God’s calling? Of course, Gideon. Gideon had a lot of odds against him as he did his best to survive during the Midian occupation. So we can cut him some slack as a timid…
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Friendship: Deposits and Withdrawals
Friendship is a word in our culture that has lost much of its meaning. Now, this is not a post ranting about how “Back in my day, when you unfriended someone they had a black eye.” No, I believe that while friendship has deteriorated because of less quality interaction, it is a topic that we can do something…
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What are you doing with your Life?
What are you going to do? Where are you going to college? What kind of job are you going to have? What are you going to do with your life? If you’ve ever gotten sick of listening to people ask you these questions. You’re totally normal. Don’t worry, everyone ends up with these type of…
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Ever been Out of Control? (it’s OK)
Sometimes it’s a good thing. Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand Proverbs 19:21 Out of Control. “No longer possible to manage” Uncontrollable. “Wild, Unruly, Defiant” These concepts have so many bad understandings. If someone is out of control in business or uncontrollable…
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A Study in Legacy Driven Leadership: TeenPact Leadership Schools
Over the past few years, I have had a chance to be involved with an outstanding ministry called TeenPact Leadership Schools. Going for the first time as a student in 2010, I fell in love with the mission of TeenPact: Our mission is to train youth to understand the political process, value their liberties, defend…
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Learning to be Heroes
You can define a society by the heroes it keeps. You can also define a person by the heroes he or she keeps. Who are your heroes? Who are you modeling yourself after? -Jeff Olson The Slight Edge As individuals strive to be what we are created to be there are different avenues to pursue.…
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First Steps: a Story of a Life Saved.
If you have ever wondered whether or not the everyday things you do actually matter, they do. Jeff Olson expands on this statement in his seminal book, the Slight Edge. If you’re facing a big problem, or a long journey to a destination read this book. Just do it. In chapter 7 Jeff writes, You…
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The Serving Leader
“What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young” -George Bernard Shaw Ever run across a statement that at first doesn’t make sense? Jumbo Shrimp. Wise Fool. or my favorite- “Nobody goes to that restaurant, its always too crowded.” These are all examples of paradoxes. Two words or concepts that seem to have…
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Enthused!!
Some things seems like magic. And in certain cases that one change behaves like magic! Such was the case of Frank Bettger, a Professional Baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals. After a in-game injury he was forced to search for a new career. Finally settling on life-insurance sales Frank spent 10 months frustrated. But…
Jon DeLange 