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2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... of boldness. That’s a prayer God will answer every time. God wants us to be bold enough to keep the 11th commandment. God wants us to be bold enough to love. 1. B. A. Botkin, A Treasury of American Anecdotes (New York: Galahad Books) 2. Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (New York: Bantam Books, 1994). Cited in John Ortberg, The Me I Want To Be: Becoming God’s Best Version of You (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010), p. 118. 3. Jonathan M. Cheek, Shyness (New York: Dell ...

2. Keep Going, Today, Tomorrow and the Next

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... argues a compelling thesis: "My thesis has been that we're piloted in part by an ingenious capacity to deceive ourselves, whereby we sink into obliviousness rather than face threatening facts." (Daniel Goleman, Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985), 241.) To avoid feelings of guilt, shame, inadequacy, we put up smokescreens, camouflage our errors, cover up our wrongdoings we deceive ourselves to preserve our self-esteem and self-image. The power ...

3. What's The Matter? Are You Blind?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... before. Jesus saw the blind man. Jesus healed the blind man and Jesus can heal you and me from our blindness as well. 1. "They Cried Until They Could Not See: . . . " Patrick Cooke, vol.140, June 23, 1991, p. 24, et seq. 2. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., VITAL LIES SIMPLE TRUTHS, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985). 3. "Forget the Label," by Joni Eareckson Tada, MOODY, September 1995, p. 30 4. Contributed. Source unknown. 5. Roberta Croteau in ASPIRE. Cited in "To Illustrate . . .," LEADERSHIP, Fall 1995, p. 40 ...

4. Who? Me Worry?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... Kuralt, ON THE ROAD WITH CHARLES KURALT (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985), 35053. Cited in Max Anders, THE GOOD LIFE (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1993), p. 206208. 2. Contributed by Ronald D. Malin, Oakland City, IN. 3. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992), pp. 3637. 4. Daniel Goleman, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (New York: Bantam Books, 1995), p. 67. 5. Contributed. Source: THE BOSTON GLOBE. 6. Joni Erickson Tada, as told to Twila Knaack, "Thanksgiving Past and Present," THESE TIMES, November 1982.

5. What's Really Important

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... lives ever before. More new information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous5,000. About 1,000 books are published internationally every day, and the total of all printed knowledge doubles every eight years. (3) Still, as Daniel Goleman so ably noted in his book, Emotional Intelligence, IQ offers little to explain the different destinies of people. "When ninety-five Harvard students from the classes of the 1940s were followed into middle age, the men with the highest test scores in ...

6. Patience

James 5:7-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.” 1. Illusaurus. 2. John M. Buchanan, “Love Has Good Manners,” http://www.fourthchurch.org/%202001/01.14.01.html. 3. Brooklyn: Shaar Press, 2000. 4. Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (New York: Bantam Books, 1995), p. 80. Cited in John Ortberg, If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of The Boat (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2001), p. 179. 5. Weekend Encounter, by Dick Innes, Copyright ...

7. The Work of the Righteous

Matthew 10:40-42

Illustration

Roger Ray

In his book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman recounts a story of an American soldier in Vietnam. His platoon was hunkered down in the rice paddies locked into the heat of a firefight with the Vietcong. The rice fields in Vietnam are often separated by an earthen beam, and on this day, a line of six Buddhist monks ...

8. All for Some Dumb Sheep

John 10:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

There was a best-selling book in 1995 by Daniel Goleman called Emotional Intelligence. This book provided us with many examples of the effects that our emotions can have on our rational brain. The book begins with the story of Gary and Mary Jean Chauncey, who were in an Amtrak train that crashed into a river after a barge hit and ...

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