Category: Pastor’s Message

In a scene from the final “Godfather” movie, Michael Corleone goes to confession to a bishop in Rome, who begins their encounter by taking a stone from the fountain and cracking it open to show that, despite its surface wetness, the interior has remained bone dry. It is an image of how hard it is…
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Three boys are in the schoolyard bragging about their fathers.  The first boy says, “My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, calls it a poem, and they give him $50 for it.”  The second boy says, “That’s nothing. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, calls it…
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Englishman Damian Aspinall heads a foundation that works to preserve endangered species of wild animals in the jungles of Africa.  Five years ago, Aspinall raised a gorilla named Kwibi and returned him to the wild.  Later, Aspinall returned to Gabon and, traveling upriver by boar, miraculously relocated his old friend, all 500 pounds of him. …
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In his third book, Outliers: The Story of Success, writer Malcolm Gladwell claims part of the key to success is to practice a specific task for a total of 10,000 hours.  The Beatles performed live in Hamburg, Germany, over 1,200 times from 1960 to 1964, amassing more than 10,000 hours of playing time, therefore meeting…
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