Author: John C Connell
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#40 How Do You Handle NO (at Work)?
We all think everyone should see things the way we see them, don’t we? Think of your important “career causes” like the apostles approached their mission. Expect the uphill climb. Plan for it, and do not take offense when you experience it.
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#39 How to Really Make Those Resolutions Stick!
With a simple adjustment to our perspectives, we can forego the circumstantial comforts we crave at the moment, and fix our sites on what we all truly want in life – to be someone fully alive. That’s who God intended you to be, that’s who your loved ones need and that’s who your coworkers value…
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#38 Who’s Watching You? (at work)
The Sea of Galilea is actually a rather large, fresh water lake. Many fishing villages and harbors could be found along its banks at the time of Christ. One of the north shore villages was Capernaum. There Jesus went to James and John’s place of business, their dock, and called them both to something more.…
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#37 Can You Create Your Own Blessings?
It is the Lord’s blessing that brings wealth, and no effort can substitute for it. Proverbs 10:22
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#36 Want Enduring Prosperity?
“With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.” Proverbs 8:18 If a true friend and confidant approached you with a guaranteed means of acquiring life-long success – I bet you would give him or her your undivided attention. It’s human nature to flock to those appearing to be successful in something we…
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#35 Are You Afraid to Ask for Help?
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7 We all have those aha moments when it comes to God. Moments when we are blessed with clarity. We see glimpses of how God is truly behind everything, sometimes guiding us through situations,…
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#34 Who or What Do You Serve?
“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.*” Mark 6:24 Hate money to love God? I immediately asked: why does it have to be one or the other? I was in my late…
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#33 Who is your Source of Wisdom?
“The just man’s lips nourish many, but fools die for want of sense.” Proverbs 10:21 Who do you go to for guidance when you need direction? When you have something really bothering you, when you find yourself in a situation and don’t know what your next move should be, who comes to mind first? Picture…
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#32 What Value Do You Place on Truth?
Jesus was talking to those who chose to follow him, and he laid out what is known as the conditions of discipleship. In doing so, he asked a really powerful question: “What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?” Luke 9:25 We do not live on this…
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#31 How Can A Book (and this blog) Help Me Mind My Business?
Your business. Think about your current job, your most recent paycheck. Is it really yours? You work hard enough for it. You pay the taxes. You incur all the costs of your life. You shoulder the responsibilities. But is it really yours? It is written in the Bible that everything belongs to God, and that…
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