Category: books
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Blessings from Bonhoeffer
Believe him to be the Son of God, and you will find him wonder upon wonder, counsel upon counsel. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer A few years ago, I was introduced to Dietrich Bonhoeffer through a play that depicted an interaction between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Ever since that introduction, I have read something […]
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Busy Online with Words
I have spent a few days mulling over publishing another book while still preparing for a 2013 full of events and activities that will fill my schedule and almost wear me down. I have spent some time writing some articles online and feel that it is time to share with some of my blogging audience this […]
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Write Your Way into View
2002 sales of books and products through all channels: just under $4.2 billion, up from $4 billion in 2000.$2.4 billion sold through Christian retail outlets; $1.1 billion through general retail; and $725 million through direct-to-consumer ministry channels. First 6 months of 2003: CBA member store sales were down 2%. Books increased 8%, Bibles increased 2% […]
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Nuts and Bolts
“Drive thy business or it will drive thee.” – Benjamin Franklin Think about it. Benjamin Franklin, one of the famed Founding Fathers of America, shared these words regarding business. Consider Franklin the businessman and inventor, even the philanthropist, not the diplomat and ambassador. Franklin was a publisher of Poor Richard’s Almanac as well as a […]
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Seek Success
“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.” ― John C. Maxwell Let me put some things in perspective for the would-be or wanna-be entrepreneur. Simply put: talk is cheap. You either need to put up or shut up. That being said, let me go a step further. You need […]
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Literate Leaders
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ― Frederick Douglass “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” ― Mark Twain I grew up reading. I love history. Civil War books really had my attention. Westerns came right after that. Biographies […]
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Being Broken into Pieces
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them, therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant; and its breaking is like […]