Walk into almost any modern Christian bookstore and there will be a "Self-Help" section.  Does anyone else laugh, or at least shake your head, at this?  

For Sunday June 15, 2008

Exodus 3:1-22 “The Message” Five Things a Leader Remembers

1. Remember who is the enemy
2. Remember everything begins with the individual.
3. Remember what you are trying to do.
4. Remember the un-knowable.
5. Remember who you are.

We will compare Moses’ call by God to lead the Hebrew people to freedom with our present day needs for leadership. I am leaning on Robert Greenleaf’s now classic work, “Servant Leadership.” For the last fifteen years, this book is always nearby.

Intimacy is achieved through forgiveness and acceptance of ourselves and those around us. 

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is known as "Life Changing."  Just perhaps, it should be better understood as "Death Changing."  Think about it.

Find comfort in the knowledge there are mountain peaks you will never climb, sunsets you will never see, flowers you will never smell.  The world is larger than you and me.  What a nice thought. 

Also find comfort in the experience of climbing higher than expected, seeing further than your imagination, knowing more than you can touch and smell.  Again the world is larger than we might guess.  "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then we will see fully, even as we have been fully known." I Corin 13.