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TIM AND KATHY FOWLER’S STORY Uncategorized

TIM AND KATHY FOWLER’S STORY

This post features Tim Fowler, a writer, photographer and chef. You can experience his creativity on his blogsite, "Scribbles and Snaps."  Tim says "I created this platform to share my experience of constant amazement with bits of our world and slivers of experience, and strive to make photographs and writing reflect those slivers and bits.  My goal is to amuse you, and sometimes make you laugh out loud, to shine a light where shadows exist, to stir emotion, motivate action, think laterally, and to encourage you to experience life more fully through stories told in photographs and pictures painted in words." “My sweet wife has cancer. Its a brutal reality.” Tim Fowler pulled back the curtain on his heart during…
Bob Jones
May 25, 2014
15 EPIC IMAGES Uncategorized

15 EPIC IMAGES

A picture is worth 1,000 words. Here is the equivalent of 15,000 words and you can feel their effect in less than 60 seconds. See what's possible with photography and a bit of creative thinking. From wildlife... to a an unexpected highrise guest. This post has images for everybody's imagination. #1. Plane in a strange place. Photo by David Kovalenko on Unsplash #2. Charlotte's Web... #3. To be or to bee... #4. Now I lay me down to sleep...#5. What do you say, Grasshopper...#6. A whole new look at the domino effect... #7. Overcoming gravity...#8. Oh yeah...#9. On a wing and prayer...#10. Go to the ant...#11. On a clear day you can see... #12. And a one, and a two…
Bob Jones
May 25, 2014
9 THINGS YOUR SOUL IS TELLING YOU IT NEEDS Uncategorized

9 THINGS YOUR SOUL IS TELLING YOU IT NEEDS

You know your soul is very significant...you just may not be sure what it means. Good health has everything to do with your soul. In fact, if you could only choose between a healthy body and a healthy soul, I'd advise...pick your soul. Integrity Your soul that has the capacity to integrate all the parts - the body, mind, and will - into a single, whole life. John Ortberg’s, “Soul Keeping: Caring for the Most Important Part of You” is far and away the best book I’ve read on the subject of soul care. When your soul is unhealthy your body, mind and will work against each other - your mind believes an action is good, but your body does…
Bob Jones
May 11, 2014
61 Quotes on Being a Leader Worth Following Uncategorized

61 Quotes on Being a Leader Worth Following

Become a leader worth following. Chick-fil-A Leadercast reached out to over 120,000 leaders around the world in over 750 locations. Our team at North Pointe hosted one of those sites. Leadercast is a movement that is changing the way the world thinks about leadership by building leaders worth following. The following are quotes from Andy Stanley, Dr Henry Cloud, Archbishop Desmond TuTu, Laura Schroff, Malcolm Gladwell and Simon Sinek   Andy Stanley - Becoming a “Beyond You Leader” 1. Just because I can, doesn’t mean I have to make all the decisions. 2. Start saying, “You decide.” 3. We celebrate generosity but we envy accumulation. 4. Work for your team. “What can I do to help?” 5. My responsibility is…
Bob Jones
May 9, 2014
26 Beyond You Leadership Thots from Desmond TuTu and Laura Schroff Uncategorized

26 Beyond You Leadership Thots from Desmond TuTu and Laura Schroff

Beyond you leadership - love, justice, kindness. 26 Beyond you leadership quotes from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Laura Schroff. Honouring Nelson Mandela - Archbishop Desmond Tutu 1. Nelson Mandela is the best place to start a discussion about selfless leadership. 2. Mandela’s extraordinariness can be put down to one word: magnanimity. 3. Mandela emerged from 27 years in prison with a freedom from anger. 4. Mandela displayed no spite, no resentment. 5. Mandela understood the recipe required to transform South Africa without violence. 6. A person is a person through other persons. 7. I need others to help me become person. 8. Regardless of your status it is an inescapable fact that we are made for each other. 9. We…
Bob Jones
May 9, 2014
22 Quotes on Becoming a Leader Worth Following Uncategorized

22 Quotes on Becoming a Leader Worth Following

Leadercast 2014 - "Become a Leader Worth Following" Here are 22 nuggets of insight and wisdom from Andy Stanley and Dr. Henry Cloud. Andy Stanley - Becoming a “Beyond You Leader” 1. Just because I can, doesn’t mean I have to make all the decisions. 2. Start saying, “You decide.” 3. We celebrate generosity but we envy accumulation. 4. Work for your team. “What can I do to help?” 5. My responsibility is not to fill anybody’s cup. 6. Look for opportunities to fill other people’s cups. 7. One of the most empowering things you can do is to empty your cup. 8. Start leading before you are the boss. 9. If your leadership isn’t all about you it will…
Bob Jones
May 9, 2014
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE IN UNCERTAINTY, CHAOS AND BAD LUCK Uncategorized

HOW YOU CAN THRIVE IN UNCERTAINTY, CHAOS AND BAD LUCK

"Great by Choice" is a book but this isn't a book review - it's a life preserver. Just when you think life is smoothing out before you like a glimmering highway through a sun-scorched desert, something happens to jackhammer the road. "Great by Choice" is a study of what uncertainty, chaos and bad luck will do to people and why some survive and even thrive. The results were full of provocative surprises: Success isn't a result of being: more creative, more visionary, more charismatic, more ambitious, more blessed by luck, more risk seeking, more heroic, or more bold. The most surprising take-away was the three behaviors shared by people who lived, both literally and figuratively, through the same circumstances that…
Bob Jones
May 7, 2014
Paradise Uncategorized

Paradise

Anomaly Youth Ministries pulled back the curtain on cultural and relational pressures facing youth in 2014 in their production, "Paradise." Written & Created by Jeremy Gifford, Paradise follows the lives of two teenagers, Abbey & Kyle. Abbey is facing a lot of bullying in her school and online. Kyle is feeling the pressure to fit in and join the bullies. Both Abbey & Kyle are trying to find their place in a broken and messed up world. Jess Wickens shares her moving personal story of being bullied in school and how she reached out to God and found His help through the support of caring believers. Paradise is an entertaining and inspiring production that received standing ovations at each presentation…
Bob Jones
May 7, 2014
4 Sound Ways to Improve the Rhythm of Your Life Uncategorized

4 Sound Ways to Improve the Rhythm of Your Life

 For those caught up in the busyness of work, family, and church, it often feels like time with God is just another thing on a crowded “to-do’ list. Ken Shigematsu worked for the Sony Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. His intense work schedule led him to explore personal disciplines that could bring order to his life. He discovered those principles on a tour of Ireland's monasteries. The rhythm of life lived by Irish monks freed them to worship God, serve their communities and live healthy. They were busy but blessed. I had the pleasure of meeting Ken recently. His discoveries are summed up in the book, "God in My Everything: How An Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People." 4 Sound Ways to…
Bob Jones
May 2, 2014
2 NEGLECTED POWERS NEEDED TODAY Uncategorized

2 NEGLECTED POWERS NEEDED TODAY

Two powers affect all of our lives: unchangeable yesterdays and unpredictable tomorrows. Yesterday's History We long to re-create segments of our personal histories, but we are stuck with them. Hurts done to us. Hurts done by us. Tomorrow's Destiny We long to control our destinies, but we cannot bring them under our management. What will become of me? What will become of us? There are two powers available to you and me, too often neglected, that will successfully address these forebodings. Two Neglected Powers Hannah Arendt was a Jew living in France during the Nazi occupation in 1941. She and her husband were interned in a camp awaiting deportation to a concentration camp in Germany. They escaped and made their…
Bob Jones
April 28, 2014