Tag Archive for 'chutzpah'

Stepping out of the Boat: Taking the Risk of Failure

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To get good at anything always means risking being bad at it at first. And one of the biggest things that separates the two stages is overcoming our fear of failing.
A while back I wrote about that famous scene in the Gospels where Jesus comes walking on the water in the midst of a storm to [...]

Persistence is the Locomotion between Faith and Fact

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Locomotion: the ability or power to move from place to place
There’s nothing more tantalizing than a half-accomplished goal.  You’ve made significant progress toward the end, you can even see the light at the end of the tunnel.  But you’re not there yet.  Somehow that tunnel exit seems to get farther and farther away. And after [...]

Spiritual Krav Maga — or the art of spiritual self-defense

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[Draft 1 - a work in progress ...]
For a while now, I’ve been sensing a trend in myown spiritual life.  When I spend time with God, I often walk away with some impressions about assertiveness, passivity, “chutzpah” — similar concepts around the theme that God wants us to take a more active role in our [...]

Walking on Water

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I’ve had this little movie playing in my head this past week, that scene in the bible where Jesus walks across the Sea of Galilee, and Peter recklessly stepping out of the boat to walk to him. We all remember the story from Sunday School, I’m sure. After a long day of ministry, Jesus sends [...]




Sunday 07.09.2008
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