Marbaniang, Domenic

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. All of us who are mature should take such a view of things.... Only let us live up to what we have already attained. (Php 3:13-16) 1. CONSECRATION. "To take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me." (v13) 2. CONCENTRATION. "One thing I do..." (v14) 3. CONFRONTATION. "I press on.... I press on." (vv13,14). Move against the current. 4. CONTINUATION. "I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.... Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on..." (v14) 5. CONSERVATION. "let us live up to what we have already attained..." (v 16)

"He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap." (Eccl 11:4) He who waits for better opportunities to come before he acts will never get anything done in life. There is a saying in Hindi that says: Aaj ka kaam kal par mut taalo , "Don't postpone today's work to tomorrow." There is no better season than this season, there is no better day than today, and there is no better moment than the "now". They who lose the moment will fail to gain the momentum. The first step taken is half the journey made. "Momentum: The laws of physics state that it is easier to keep going than get going. So start doing the task before you feel motivated to do it." ( bbc.co.uk ) John Gill: Ecclesiastes 11:4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow,.... Who before he sows his seed is careful to observe where the wind is, from what corner it blows, and forbears sowing until it is down or changes, lest it should be troublesome un...

1. Exhaust your arrows and you'll be undefeatable. Give life your all. Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, "O my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!" And Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and some arrows." So he took himself a bow and some arrows. Then he said to the king of Israel, "Put your hand on the bow." So he put his hand on it, and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. And he said, "Open the east window"; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot"; and he shot. And he said, "The arrow of the Lord's deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them." Then he said, "Take the arrows"; so he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground"; so he struck three times, a...

Psychologists have always pondered on the psychology of evil and the corruptibility of humans. For instance, the Stanford Prison Experiments and studies conducted by Philip Zimbardo [1] show that certain psychological mechanisms that are part of certain cultural or political systems (e.g. racialism, Nazism, casteism, etc) can act as justifying frameworks of inhumane behavior. Zimbardo himself observes that at one point during the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which volunteers had been arrested in a realistic show style and put into prison cells where they were subjected to dehumanization and deindividuation, he arrived at a point where he had confused reality with this false world created for just an experiment. He writes: I was sitting there all alone, waiting anxiously for the intruders to break in, when who should happen along but a colleague and former Yale graduate student roommate, Gordon Bower. Gordon had heard we were doing an experiment, and he came to see what was going on....

About four decades ago, the American theologian Harvey Cox , had already defined secularization as an inevitable process. [1] Almost a decade prior to that, Bryan Wilson, in his book Religion in Secular Society (1966) had considered it to be irreversible. [2] However, history has a different tale to say. The scepter of philosophy is hard to cast away. Somewhere or the other it holds its reins and pulls history on. In the 1920s a small group of scientists, mathematicians, sociologists, and economists, (not philosophers) had gathered together in Vienna to develop a unified philosophy that embraced science and attempted to destroy philosophy. [3] Their new philosophy came to be known as Logical Positivism . It, of course, suffered a natural death soon. But, what the empiricists then did not realize was that philosophy may be philosophically denied but not scientifically annihilated. In less than a decade, the world saw the angry reins of philosophies on the chariots of the nations as ...

FIVE LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP "Why People Follow Other People" 5. POSITION (Title) "Rights" - People follow because they have to. 4. PERMISSION. "Relationships" - People follow because they want to 3. PRODUCTION. "Results" - People follow because of what you have done for the organization. 2. PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT. "Reproduction" - People follow because of what you have done for them personally. 1. PERSONHOOD. "Respect" - People follow you because of who you are and what you represent. PERSONHOOD is the strongest and most influential level of leadership. From  The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make by Hans Finzel.