Coaching The Bible

'Physical strength is measured by what we carry. Inner strength is measured by what we can bear.'

– Anonymous

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Happy Chanukah to all who are celebrating this week!

This is Episode 169 (S4:E9)

Topic of the week: On Developing Inner Strength

Happy Learning!

“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”

--Confucius

This is Episode 168 (S4:E8)

Our topic of the week: On Unpacking The Moral Argument

Happy Learning

“In the end, Tipping Points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push—in just the right place—it can be tipped.”

--Malcolm Gladwell

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This is episode 167 (S4:E7)

Topic of the Week: On Tipping Points

Exploring what it is that 'tips' Jacob's decision to return home after so many years...

'Decisions are the hardest thing to make, especially when it is a choice between where you should be and where you want to be.'

--Unknown

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Hi all.

This is Episode 166 (S4:E6)

Our topic of the week: On Making Moral Decisions

Enjoy!

'Words have the power to heal and enslave, uplift and destroy. Our words have the power to construct entire worlds or bring existing ones to ruin. They are perhaps the most potent tool humanity has been given. We would all do well to use them with just a little more care.'

--Nicholas DiNapoli

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Episode 165 (S4:E5)

Topic of the Week: On Making The Case

“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”

-- Robert F. Kennedy

This is Episode 164 (S4:E4)

Topic of the Week: Moral Courage

'You ask what is our policy. I will say, it is to wage war with all

Yu ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory however long and hard the road may be. For without victory there is no survival.'

--Winston Churchill

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Episode 163 (S4:E3)

Topic of the Week: On How To Fight

'Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Episode 162 (S4:E2)

Topic: On Spreading Light

'The biggest threat to our wellbeing is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.'

-- Rich Shuman

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This is Episode 161 (S4:E1) On Moral Clarity

'𝘖𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.'

--Helen Keller

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This is 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟭𝟲𝟬 (𝗦𝟯:𝗘𝟱𝟭)

Our Topic: 𝗢𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗻 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁...

Hi all!!

This week's episode completes Rd 3 of Coaching With The Bible. Congrats to all and thank you to all who have been with us each week: listening, sharing insights, posing questions, and being a source of encouragement and inspiration.

I appreciate all of you.

I do not take it as a given that you would give me your time and your attention each week when those could be spent in other places! So thank you!

It's true... I am an optimist.

I may appear to be a grouch or a curmudgeon at first, but int here is an eternal optimist...

How else could I have attempted fundraising for a living...getting turned down by potential donors and prospects on a consistent basis...

Believing in the cause is great, but it can get hard to move forward and just 'keep going,' that's where the optimist comes out:

it is covered over sometimes by what appears to be belief or confidence and while that's true, at its core, it is a mix of faith, belief, resilience, discipline, and a heavy and healthy dose of optimism that 'next time' or the 'next one' will work out and 'be the one'...

So my question for you is this:

^ Where and when are you the optimist or the pessimist?

^ What about each situation makes you one or the other?

^ Why do you think that to be true about you?

Join me as we begin to explore being an optimist.

Enjoy!