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Get the Summary of Horst Schulze's Excellence Wins in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Horst Schulze knows how to win. In Excellence Wins, Schulze, in his absolute no-nonsense approach, shares the visionary and disruptive principles that have produced immense global successes over the course of his still-prolific 50-year career.
As the co-founder and former president of Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
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Of this work as published by the Author, the following was the title: 'Gildas Salvianus: The Reformed Pastor, showing the nature of the Pastoral work, especially in Private Instruction and Catechizing, with an open CONFESSION of our too open SINS: Prepared for a Day of Humiliation kept at Worcester, December 4, 1655, by the Ministers of that County, who subscribed the Agreement for Catechizing and Personal Instruction at their entrance upon that work,...
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#1 The younger son went off and spent all his inheritance. Then a famine occurred, and he was forced to find a job to support himself. When he returned home, he found his father had sacrificed the grain-fed calf because his son was dead, but he had come back to life.
#2 The parable of the Prodigal Son is about a sinner repenting and God forgiving him, which is what many...
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#1 When you're going through a difficult time, remind yourself that it's not how your story ends. The pain is temporary, but the glory that comes with your greater is permanent. Focus on the glory that's coming to you instead of the suffering..
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#1 Women are God's idea. He created Adam first, but quickly realized that he needed a helper, so He took a rib from Adam's side and created Eve out of it.
#2 The offspring of Eve is Jesus Christ, who defeated Satan by taking away his authority. God will meet you where you are and help you get to where you need to be.
#3 Demographers estimate that 126 million women are...
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#1 The Holy Spirit is a person, and His personhood is emphasized in John 16, when eleven times in eight verses, He is referred to by the personal, masculine pronouns He, Him, and His.
#2 The names given to the Holy Spirit reveal another aspect of His beautiful character. He is the Helper, Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor, Counselor, Strengthener, and Standby.
#3 The...
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Of Augustus Caesar it is said that, when he read the works of men of learning and genius, he used to extract such precepts as might prove useful to him in his government. This part of his conduct manifested wisdom; the precepts thus collected, served to assist him and his ministers in managing the affairs of the empire. But, the necessity of our imitating this part of his conduct, has been in a great measure superseded by that Spirit of truth, under...
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It has been said by a divine of the seventeenth century, in reference to the portion of the divine word of which this work is an exposition: "Search all the Scripture, you will not find any one chapter into which more excellent, sublime, and evangelical truths are crowded! The Bible is the book of books, and this chapter may be styled the chapter of chapters!
From first to last it is high gospel, all gospel, it is the summation and storehouse of...
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Our Father in Heaven never intended that we, who are his children by regeneration, should live anything else than a life of perfect obedience and trust, for we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. This means more to us than we may at first realize. In his explanation of the miracle of Pentecost, Peter said (Acts 2:33):
"Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,...
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#1 The New Atheism is a recent movement of God-deniers writing bestsellers. It's been said that the four horsemen of the Neo-atheistic apocalypse are Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett.
#2 The Christian faith has an image problem, and it is largely due to the New Atheists. They have capitalized on the West's increasingly post-Christian...
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#1 We all think we're good people, but Jesus says we're not. We have a problem: all of us think we're more moral than average. We're better at everything than everybody, but we're still humble about it.
#2 We all have a tendency to be self-righteous, and we rarely talk about it. Jesus addresses this issue relentlessly, and he says that all of us, without exception, need...
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#1 This book is about Jesus and the Church. Israel is a big part of the story, but it is not the main point. The real story is in Israel's future, not its past. As a Christian, you should have no fear of what God has planned for this world. He has a plan for celebration, not judgment, joy, peace, and you.
#2 I am a Jew, of the tribe of Judah, an Israeli of Israelis....
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#1 Sometimes you try things after others have failed, thinking that nothing will work. However, the truth is that you might have a key chain with 25 keys on it, but only one will actually unlock the door for you.
#2 There are many financial solutions out there, but many people have struggled to find the perfect one. You may have tried all the budgets, expert financial...
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The book of "Science and Christian Faith: Their Relationship in the Past, Present and Future" is a book dealing with natural sciences and my personal, evangelical Christian faith, their relationship in time of past, present and future." It is a semi-science popular reference book.
In Western civilization, Christianity and science are historically two Rocks. Christianity was borne when Jesus commenced his ministry among the Jewish people. In a short...
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#1 You may be a high-achiever, but you still may feel overwhelmed by the amount of things you have to do. You may be doing everything you can, but you're still not getting everything done. The shoulds of life constantly tap you on the shoulder, reminding you not to forget about them.
#2 I had an overcommitment problem, which is when you have too much to do and always...
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#1 The idea that we might regret our life choices when we get older is common among people in middle age and even young adulthood. We can easily imagine that we'll be sorry about it someday if we don't make a change.
#2 We all have regrets, and it's impossible to live a life without any regrets. But it is possible to make changes that take us off the easy path of immersing...
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#1 My mother's family history is rich with tradition. She told me stories of when she was a little girl, and I loved hearing about her family's history. It gave me a sense of continuity.
#2 We have lost our culture and our faith, and we are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We have adopted a bourgeois mediocrity that would make it seem like...
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#1 The Christian leader of the future is called to be irrelevant, and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but their own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus revealed God's love.
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#1 I had a favorite Sunday school teacher, Miss Jean, who would always tell me that Jesus loved me. She would put up a picture of Jesus surrounded by children, and say, Jesus loves little children. He will always be your friend.
#2 The Bible describes God as a friend to Israel, and Christians have long believed that Jesus is God's friend. The New Testament vividly...
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#1 The desire to cheat death and live forever, to achieve immortality apart from God, has been a driving force throughout history. As for Jones, a few weeks after the initial call, a specialist realized there had been an error in the diagnosis.
#2 Jones's research found that much of philosophy is dedicated to conquering the fear of death. For example, Plato wrote that...
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