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We all know them – those people we lead who habitually confuse and muddle our mission. Sometimes it's on purpose. Sometimes it isn't. Regardless, they can cause big problems. In this article Shaun Blakeney, Saddleback's high school pastor, shares four tips for how to deal with these “confusers.” [more]

"Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life – for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them." - Laura Teresa Marquez

"The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want." - Bo Bennett

In 1965 47-year-old Francois Raffray made a deal with then 90-year-old Jeanne Calment. He agreed to pay her $500 a month for the rest of her life in exchange for her condo when she died. He paid her that sum for the next 30 years until he died at age 77 in 1995. In all Francois paid more than three times the market value for the condo. She died two years later at age 122, the longest living person in modern history. - Source: Wikipedia & The International Herald Tribune

"Make no mistake about it, this drama and this Kingdom's agenda is at the center of the meaning of cosmic history and your own individual story. Like a grand conductor who calls in the flutes at just the right time, your Father has brought you into the Cosmic Symphony at your unique place in time and space so you can be a vibrant outpost in your sphere of influence. In short, you are here to be an apprentice of the Lord Jesus to learn how to live your life well as part of God's broader purposes. This is your calling, this is your destiny, this is your only chance to have a life of genuine, full human flourishing." - J.P. Moreland, Kingdom Triangle (Zondervan, 2007)

"The more I practice, the luckier I get." - Jerry Barber