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Dealing with Minor Obstacles

Just because you miss one train doesn't mean you have to cancel the whole vacation.


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Learning from Discouragement

There was a story in the paper in Chicago this last weekend about a man who was being pursued by his wife. To escape her he jumped over a five-foot wall. ...


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Possibility Grows Out of Discouragement

See the possibilities. Here's a fellow who sold insurance, and he went after a particularly difficult customer, a man that no one had been able to ...


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The Birth of Raisins

The Franciscans were the first ones to systematically grow grapes in California. They grew the Muscat grapes to make Muscatel wine. One year they had ...


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Focusing on the Orange Spot

You perhaps have heard of the old sales managers' device of holding up a large piece of paper with a small orange spot down in one corner. He says ...


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The Tides of Opportunity

It's this idea which Shakespeare emphasizes in the fourth act of Julius Caesar, when he puts these words upon the lips of Brutus trying to enlist Cassius ...


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The Right Molten Moment

My first pastorate was in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, which was famous at that time for having the world's largest steel-tube rolling mills. They created ...


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The Right Moment for Witnessing

David Brainerd, the great missionary to the American Indians, was on one occasion witnessing to a chief, who was very close to deciding for Christ. But ...


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Beyond "Luck"

You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.


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A Fine Catch

A young minister recently invited two of us to fish in one of his favorite spots. We had fished for an hour when the minister's wife arrived with news: ...


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