Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to move forward despite the fear.

The primary quality of all leaders is the ability to make decisions. Indecisive men are double-minded men and they’re unstable men in all their ways. The top priority of a leadership requirement list is the ability to make decisions, and good leaders do not second-guess themselves, because when they do, they create confusion in their own mind.

Based on the choices you make, based on the decisions you make, you are your own best friend or your worst enemy.

Once the decision is made, if it’s wrong, repent and make it right. If it’s right, go for it with everything that you have.

Your life is composed of your choices and constructed by your words. Your choices determine your conduct, your character and your destiny. If you don’t like the life you’re living right now, change your choices and the use of your words. That’s why you quote Scripture, because Scripture has creative power to make change.

Change is the only constant in maturity.

Decisions that we make are not instantaneous. They are rooted and grounded in our character. The decisions you make spontaneously, instantaneously have their root and their ground and their seed bed in the character that you develop over a period of time.

So out of that character then comes the decisions you make that help determine your character over a process of time.

Character counts.

God said in His Word, “Commit to men who are able and they will become faithful to teach others also.” Amen? Wrong. I said that because I wanted to impress you with the fact that that is a transposition of words that causes a transposition of meaning, causes a transposition of action and produces failure.

The difference between the leaders we revile and those that we praise is their individual level of honor. In fact, honor is the force that holds a leaders hunger in check. Without honor, hunger runs rampant and ultimately serves only selfish interests.

The character of a man is the only thing that will walk back from the grave into the hearts of the people who knew him - that is the true legacy of a leader of honor.

These pictures where taken from an “Islamic Peace March” in Britain. 3/27/2006

“The grace of faith, by which the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts, and is ordinarily produced through the ministry of the Word. This faith is increased and strengthened by the same means, and also by the administration of the sacraments and prayer.”

Twenty years from now, most people will be more disappointed by the things that they didn’t do, than the things that they did.

I will not.

I will study while others are sleeping; I will prepare while they are playing; I will work while they are inert. Why ?

Because I have a dream, they have a fantasy; I have a conviction, they have a preference; they will walk the minimal distance, I will travel the extra mile

I will see a reformation in my life time, a quiet revolution that shall shake the planet.

I am surely convinced I have the best job in the word.

My days are given to the contemplation of the things of God and my nights to their expounding.

My effort is given to seeing others succeed and their fruit brings me great joy.

So I end each week, spent and happy!

And eager for the next.

Alexander is honored and will be honored and respected forever by the great religions of the world. [Hollywood-style] scripts, therefore, and other attempts to blemish his personality, are ineffective. Regardless of what has been mentioned above, common sense negates allegations about Alexander’s homosexuality or drinking habits. It would have been impossible for Alexander to lead his army in such successful military campaigns, achieved by no one preceding or following him, if these attributes were true.

Film scripts which attempt to portray Alexander the Great as a homosexual are of poor taste and lack seriousness. Plutarch stated in his Moralia. De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute [Morals. About the Virtue or Fortune of Alexander the Great]: “Let us bring up the deeds of those who have generally been identified as philosophers and let us compare their deeds with the deeds of Alexander. Philoxenus, his coast guard commander, wrote to Alexander that he found in Ionia a very handsome boy, one that could be compared to none other in beauty, and that if Alexander wanted the boy, he could send the youth to him. The king replied to him bitterly and in a scolding fashion: ‘Horrible man, have you known me up to now guilty of such crimes? How dare you flatter me with such vile pleasures?’”

Other points could be brought to disprove Alexander’s homosexuality allegations: Alexander was married to Roxane and had an heir by her; he was also married to the daughter of Darius; a queen of the East had asked Alexander to father a child with her.

In this age of loss of direction and human dignity, we search for great men to guide and inspire our youth and to elevate the quality of life. Falsification and degradation of the personalities and statuses of long established heroes of history for political or materialistic gains and minimization of their positive effectiveness is not only offensive to every civilized human being, but is also a crime against humanity itself. In the case of Alexander the Great, nothing undertaken by those who now wish to turn historical facts around, in order to try and belittle him or tarnish his fame with unfounded claims, can affect his grandeur and place in [world] history.

http://www.helleniccomserve.com/alexander.html

Many have warned others that they come not to that place of torment, while yet they hastened to it themselves: many a preacher is now in hell, who hath a hundred times called upon his hearers to use the utmost care and diligence to escape it. Can any reasonable man imagine that God should save men for offering salvation to others, while they refuse it themselves; and for telling others those truths which they themselves neglect and abuse?

Many a tailor goes in rags, that maketh costly clothes for others; and many a cook scarcely licks his fingers, when he hath dressed for others the most costly dishes.

Believe it, brethren, God never saved any man for being a preacher, nor because he was an able preacher; but because he was a justified, sanctified man, and consequently faithful in his Master’s work. Take heed, therefore, to yourselves first, that you be that which you persuade your hearers to be, and believe that which you persuade them to believe, and heartily entertain that Saviour whom you offer to them.

He that bade you love your neighbours as yourselves, did imply that you should love yourselves, and not hate and destroy yourselves and them.

It is a terrible thing is that the world goes on with its laughter and its joking, paying no attention to and showing no interested in the question of the wrath and the judgment of God, and saying that in general it believes in God while fondly imagining that it is going to escape the righteous judgment of God according to truth. And may I go so far as to say that today the Church is no better. Cacconed in its self-serving gospel, numbed by it’s Sunday entertainment program.

Friend - the wrath and judgment of God is THE great motive for evangelism.

Your just a Hell Fire and Brimstone Preacher - NO, a thousand times NO! I am a Repentance and Grace preacher. Repent from your sins and receive the Grace of God through forgiveness of sin.

Your just trying to scare people into the Kingdom - again -NO! I am trying to alert people as to their eternal plight and to all that Christ has done for them.

The judgment of God is the first reason why we should talk to man about his soul and present the gospel to him. Before we begin to tell him anything about the benefits of Christian salvation and Christian living, we must tell men and women that, as they are, they are under the wrath of God and that they cannot escape it, do what they will.

They know they have got to die, they cannot escape that:

Hebrews 9:27

‘It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that comes the judgment’

Now, Christians, do we all realize this as we should?

Is this our motive?

Does this urge us?
Does this give us a concern about the souls of men and women?

The terrifying thing that is proclaimed here is that the whole of mankind is under the judgment and the wrath of God, and that there is no escape apart from the way that God Himself has provided through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.