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Facing Your Fears

What do you fear? It may be a common fear like spiders, public speaking, or heights. It may be something less tangible but no less real, like crowds or loneliness. In this video, the character fears crossing the street, and he has a good excuse for his fears. But how can we seek to overcome [...]

It was December and my husband, Marvin, and I, along with another couple, were on one of those “around the world in 10 days” trips. We’d been in the air for five days already and were feeling weary. I was eager to get home to complete my Christmas preparations. We had been in Ethiopia and [...]

Fear. It cuts you like a knife; it immobilizes you like a straitjacket. On a daily basis, fear is a reminder that the world is not a completely safe place, and that it is not entirely as you wish it would be. Does reading about fear and its effects make you feel fearful? If so, [...]

Fear keeps us in the background. It convinces us we can never accomplish our dreams, tells us to keep quiet, and separates us from the ones we love. Fear has an unparalleled ability to freeze us in our tracks, and limit what we are willing to try. Fear makes us lead a smaller life. The [...]

The Two Biggest Youth Relationship Fears

>> Watch part 12 of this series: Relationships are about Loving Others New to this series? Watch the introduction video here What forms our beliefs and our values? What forms our children’s beliefs and their values? Join internationally recognized speaker & scholar Josh McDowell as he explores how to have a positive impact on the [...]

Facing Cancer

Facing cancer can either cripple you or it can motivate you to take action. As a pragmatic person, Kathy saw her possible heath scare as a time to trust that she will be taken care of. If you were faced with the possibility of cancer would you take action or would you be crippled in [...]

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Facing Bankruptcy

Jim Leininger was facing the worst case fear of entrepreneurs everywhere – bankruptcy. Although Jim was raised as a Christian, he had slowly wandered away from church, to the point where he now declared himself an agnostic. But God showed him how his intellectual pride had blinded him to the truth. “I realized how patiently [...]

Watch the Up a Tree video! What do you fear, and why?I don’t mean spiders or snakes. I mean those things which are holding you back from realizing your full potential. The childish fears of our youth are usually replaced by new fears, or sometimes they just morph into more socially acceptable versions of those [...]

In 1979, three years after he had founded Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI), Dr. Jim Leininger was facing the bugbear of entrepreneurs everywhere – bankruptcy. From the beginning An emergency room physician from San Antonio, Texas, Jim founded his company on an invention that had been inspired by his work: the Roto Rest bed, a critical [...]

There’s something about the cartoon strip, “Peanuts” that can evoke a chuckle while simultaneously piercing our conscience. That’s what happened to me when I discovered a profound message in one of Charles Schultz’s comic strips. Charlie Brown was sitting in a deck chair near the front of a large boat when Lucy walked up. “Some [...]