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1. 101 Ways to Spend Your Time

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Tim Kimmel

Becoming good at the things that build inner confidence and calm takes practice and a dash of creativity! The following list might provide some cloudseeding for a brainstorm or two of your own: Pay off your credit cards. Take off ten pounds or accept where you are without any more complaints. Eat dinner together as a family for seven days in a row. Take your wife on a dialogue date (no movie, guy...

2. Facing the Consequences

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Tim Kimmel

When you're raised in the country, hunting is just a natural part of growing up. For years I enjoyed packing up my guns and some food to head off into the woods. Even more than the hunting itself, I enjoyed the way these trips always seemed to deepen my relationship with friends as we hunted during the day and talked late into the night around the campfire. When an old friend recently invited me t...

3. Meet in the Middle

2 Cor. 5:18-19

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Tim Kimmel

Shortly after the turn of the century, Japan invaded, conquered, and occupied Korea. Of all of their oppressors, Japan was the most ruthless. They overwhelmed the Koreans with a brutality that would sicken the strongest of stomachs. Their crimes against women and children were inhuman. Many Koreans live today with the physical and emotional scars from the Japanese occupation. One group singled ou...

4. Passing Down a Kiss

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Tim Kimmel

Andor Foldes was an internationally renowned Hungarian pianist born in Budapest, who later took American citizenship. He past away in 1992. He told a wonderful story about how praise made all the difference for him early in his career. His first recollection of an affirming word was at age seven when his father kissed him and thanked him for helping in the garden. He remembers it over six decades ...

5. Successful Judas

Matt 17:1-9; Mark 9:2-13

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Tim Kimmel

Among the apostles, the one absolutely stunning success was Judas, and the one thoroughly groveling failure was Peter. Judas was a success in the ways that most impress us: he was successful both financially and politically. He cleverly arranged to control the money of the apostolic band; he skillfully manipulated the political forces of the day to accomplish his goal. And Peter was a failure in w...

6. The Booth That Saved a Lincoln

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Tim Kimmel

Take Edwin Thomas, for instance. Edwin Thomas Booth, that is. At age fifteen he debuted on the stage playing Tressel to his father's Richard III. Within a few short years he was playing the lead in Shakespearean tragedies throughout the United States and Europe. He was the Olivier of his time. He brought a spirit of tragedy that put him in a class by himself. Edwin had a younger brother, John, wh...

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1. 101 Ways to Spend Your Time

Illustration

Tim Kimmel

2. Facing the Consequences

Illustration

Tim Kimmel

3. Meet in the Middle

2 Cor. 5:18-19

Illustration

Tim Kimmel

4. Passing Down a Kiss

Illustration

Tim Kimmel

5. Successful Judas

Matt 17:1-9; Mark 9:2-13

Illustration

Tim Kimmel

6. The Booth That Saved a Lincoln

Illustration

Tim Kimmel

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