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A Mixture of Hits and Errors

In 1986 Bob Brenley was playing third base for the San Francisco Giants. In the fourth inning of a game against the Atlanta Braves, Brenley made an error ...


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Forgetting the Point of It All

Max De Pree tells a wonderful story, and he swears that it's true, about those wonderful tomato growers in central California. More successful at ...


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Faithfulness Better than Success

It is required of a man that he be faithful, not successful.


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"Success" Doesn't Count

A missionary wrote me: "Sometimes adversity tempts me to discouragement in the face of seeming failure. But I take courage and press on anew, as ...


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Real Success and Real Failure

Among the apostles, the one absolutely stunning success was Judas, and the one thoroughly groveling failure was Peter. Judas was a success in the ways ...


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Fear and Joy Go Together

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.


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Replacing Success with Service

Writer Philip Yancey notes that toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein removed the portraits of two scientists--Newton and Maxwell--from his wall. ...


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Success on Any Path

Some things make you successful whatever path you take--whether you're on the "mommy track" or in a full-time career outside the home. You ...


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What Determines the Quality of Life

The quality of your life will be determined by the amount of time you spend alone with God in reading, praying, and planning.


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Was Jesus a Failure?

I think we need to be constantly reminded that Jesus, by the standards of cultural success models, was a miserable failure.


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