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  14. “A Short Biography of Eric H. Liddell (1902–1945)” Eric Liddell Centre, www.ericliddell.org/​about-us/​eric-liddell/​biography/.

  15. “Chariots of Fire Quotes,” imdb.com, www.imdb.com/​title/​tt0082158/​quotes.

  16. Psalm 16:11, ESV

  17. If you haven’t read John Piper’s Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (New York: Multnomah, 2011), order it immediately.

  18. John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (New York: Multnomah, 2003), 10.

  19. See Romans 12:2.

  20. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC (New York: HarperOne, 1993), 118.

  21. “Passion Is More Important for Professional Success Than Talent,” NoCamels, Israeli Innovation News, November 4, 2015, http://nocamels.com/​2015/​11/​passion-important-for-career/.

  22. Romans 12:6–8.

  23. Bible Study Tools, s.v. “haplotes,” www.biblestudytools.com/​lexicons/​greek/​nas/​haplotes.html.

  24. Bible Study Tools, s.v. “hilarotes,” www.biblestudytools.com/​lexicons/​greek/​kjv/​hilarotes.html.

  25. Bible Study Tools, s.v. “spoude,” www.biblestudytools.com/​lexicons/​greek/​kjv/​spoude.html.

  26. “Martin Luther,” Goodreads, www.goodreads.com/​quotes/​924405-the-christian-shoemaker-does-his-duty-not-by-putting-little.

  27. Dorothy Sayers, Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine (Nashville: W Publishing, 2004), 132.

  28. The Israelites failed to enter the Promised Land on their first attempt because of a bad report by ten of the twelve spies sent to explore the land.

  29. “Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions,” Study.com, http://study.com/​academy/​lesson/​robert-plutchiks-wheel-of-emotions-lesson-quiz.html.

  30. “Emotion Annotation and Representation Language,” https://socialselves.files.wordpress.com/​2013/​03/​earl.pdf.

  31. Dea Birkett, “I Know Just How You Feel,” Guardian, September 3, 2002, www.theguardian.com/​education/​2002/​sep/​03/​science.highereducation.

  32. 1 Samuel 18:7.

  33. Philippians 2:3.

  34. “Michelangelo,” Goodreads, www.goodreads.com/​quotes/​497577-critique-by-creating.

  35. James 4:6.

  36. See Galatians 5:22–23.

  37. Maria Konnikova, “The Lost Art of the Unsent Angry Letter,” New York Times, March 22, 2014, www.nytimes.com/​2014/​03/​23/​opinion/​sunday/​the-lost-art-of-the-unsent-angry-letter.html.

  38. Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (New York: Bantam Books, 2005), 34.

  39. Daniel Goleman, “Emotional Intelligence (Goleman),” Learning Theories, www.learning-theories.com/​emotional-intelligence-goleman.html.

  40. Romans 12:2.

  41. Caitlin Johnson, “Cutting Through Advertising Clutter,” Sunday Morning, CBS News, September 17, 2006, www.cbsnews.com/​news/​cutting-through-advertising-clutter/.

  42. Blue Letter Bible, s.v. “syschematizo,” www.blueletterbible.org/​lang/​lexicon/​lexicon.cfm?t=kjv&strongs=g4964.

  43. Kamran Abbasi, “A Riot of Divergent Thinking,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 104, no. 10 (October 2011): 391, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/​pmc/​articles/​PMC3184540/.

  44. Journalist Malcolm Gladwell writes about this idea in his brilliant book Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown, 2008), 69–90.

  45. John Putzier, Get Weird! 101 Innovative Ways to Make Your Company a Great Place to Work (New York: AMACOM, 2001), 7–8.

  46. Luke 18:41.

  47. Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace (New York: Viking, 1996), 23.

  48. MacKenzie, Giant Hairball, 9.

  49. See Luke 4:18.

  50. See 1 Corinthians 1:27.

  51. 1 Peter 2:9, KJV.

  Chapter 7: The Door to Bithynia

  1. “Twenty Largest Earthquakes in the World,” United States Geological Survey, https://earthquake.usgs.gov/​earthquakes/​browse/​largest-world.php.

  2. “The Deadliest Tsunami in History?,” News, National Geographic, January 7, 2005, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/​news/​2004/​12/​1227_041226_tsunami.html.

  3. “Indian Ocean Tsunami: Facts and Figures,” ITV Report, December 26, 2014, www.itv.com/​news/​2014-12-26/​indian-ocean-tsunami-facts-and-figures/; “Timeline of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Timeline_of_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake; “11 Facts About the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami,” DoSomething.org, www.dosomething.org/​facts/​11-facts-about-2004-indian-ocean-tsunami.

  4. “December 26, 2004, Sumatra Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami,” National Geophysical Data Center, www.ngdc.noaa.gov/​hazardimages/​event/​show/​51.

  5. “Moken,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Moken_people.

  6. Rebecca Leung, “Sea Gypsies Saw Signs in the Waves: How Moken People in Asia Saved Themselves from Deadly Tsunami,” CBS News, March 18, 2005, 1, www.cbsnews.com/​news/​sea-gypsies-saw-signs-in-the-waves/.

  7. Leung, “Sea Gypsies,” 2.

  8. Leung, “Sea Gypsies,” 2.

  9. Leung, “Sea Gypsies,” 2.

  10. “No Word for Worry,” ProjectMoken.com, http://projectmoken.com/​no-word-for-worry-2/.

  11. See John 4:48.

  12. Mark 16:20, KJV.

  13. “What Does It Mean…?,” ThisIsChurch.com, www.thisischurch.com/​christian_teaching/​celticchristianity.xhtml.

  14. Colossians 3:15.

  15. See Philippians 4:7.

  16. See Proverbs 15:22.

  17. “Peter Marshall: A Man Called Peter,” www.kamglobal.org/​BiographicalSketches/​petermarshall.html.

  18. Revelation 3:7.

  19. Carol M. Highsmith and Ted Landphair, Union Station: A History of Washington’s Grand Terminal (Washington, DC: Archetype, 1998), 15.

  20. Acts 16:6.

  21. Acts 16:9.

  22. See Acts 16:11–15.

  23. See Acts 27.

  24. See Acts 28:7–8.

  25. See Judges 6:36–40.

  26. Numbers 22:28.

  27. Numbers 22:29.

  28. Numbers 22:30.

  29. Numbers 22:32.

  30. Bible Study Tools, s.v. “yarat,” www.biblestudytools.com/​lexicons/​hebrew/​nas/​yarat.html.

  31. See 1 Corinthians 1:27.

  32. Jack Deere, Surprised by the Voice of God: How God Speaks Today Through Prophecies, Dreams, and Visions (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), 297.

  33. Luke 22:10–12.

  34. Matthew 17:27.

  35. See Hebrews 13:8.

  36. John 14:12.

  Chapter 8: Dreamers by Day

  1. “Icedream Cone,” Chick-fil-A, www.chick-fil-a.com/​Menu-Items/​Icedream—Cone.

  2. “Orchidaceae,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Orchidaceae.

  3. Kevin Ashton, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery (New York, Doubleday, 2015), 5.

  4. Robert Krulwich, “The Little Boy Who Should’ve Vanished, but Didn’t,” Phenomena, National Geographic, June 16, 2015, http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/​2015/​06/​16/​the-little-boy-who-shouldve-vanished-but-didnt/.

  5. Ashton, How to Fly a Horse, 2.

  6. Ashton, How to Fly a Horse, 4.

  7. Krulwich, “The Little Boy.”

  8. Genesis 1:3.

  9. See 1 Kings 3:9.

  10. Matthew 22:37.

  11. See Proverbs 17:22.

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nbsp; 12. Francis Collins spoke at the semiannual board meeting of the National Association of Evangelicals on March 9, 2017.

  13. See 2 Corinthians 10:5.

  14. “YWAM History,” YWAM, www.ywam.org/​wp/​about-us/​history/.

  15. Loren Cunningham with Janice Rogers, Is That Really You, God? Hearing the Voice of God (Seattle: YWAM, 1984), 28.

  16. “About Us,” YWAM, www.ywam.org/​wp/​about-us/.

  17. Acts 2:17.

  18. “Toymaker’s Dream Tours USSR,” The Forerunner, December 1, 1988, www.forerunner.com/​forerunner/​X0704_Toymaker_in_USSR.html.

  19. Joel Houston, “Salvation Is Here,” The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One, copyright © 2004, Hillsong.

  20. See James 4:2.

  21. Acts 10:9–14.

  22. Acts 26:19.

  23. See James 5:14.

  24. Bill Johnson with Jennifer Miskov, Defining Moments: God-Encounters with Ordinary People Who Changed the World (New Kensington, PA: Whitaker, 2016), 153–54.

  25. Johnson with Miskov, Defining Moments, 159.

  26. “A Man of Healing,” Healing Rooms Ministries, healingrooms.com/?page_id=422.

  Chapter 9: Hidden Figures

  1. “Godspeed, John Glenn,” USA Today, December 8, 2016, www.usatoday.com/​story/​news/​2016/​12/​08/​short-list-thursday/​95136358/.

  2. “Mercury-Atlas 6,” NASA, November 20, 2006, www.nasa.gov/​mission_pages/​mercury/​missions/​friendship7.html.

  3. Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (New York: William Morrow, 2016), 217.

  4. “Katherine Johnson Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom,” NASA, November 24, 2015, www.nasa.gov/​image-feature/​langley/​katherine-johnson-receives-presidential-medal-of-freedom.

  5. John Donne, “Meditation XVII,” www.online-literature.com/​donne/​409/.

  6. C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014), 52.

  7. Lewis, God in the Dock, 51–52.

  8. Catherine Thimmesh, Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2015).

  9. Hebrews 12:1.

  10. 2 Timothy 1:7, NASB.

  11. 2 Timothy 1:4.

  12. 1 Corinthians 16:10, NLT.

  13. Bible Study Tools, s.v. “deilia,” www.bibletools.org/​index.cfm/​fuseaction/​Lexicon.show/​ID/​G1167/​deilia.xhtml.

  14. “Saint Timothy,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Saint_Timothy.

  15. Jeremiah 1:6, NLT.

  16. Jeremiah 1:7.

  17. James 5:16.

  18. “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” Goodreads, www.goodreads.com/​quotes/​24180-if-we-could-read-the-secret-history-of-our-enemies.

  19. John Calvin, quoted in Ian Cron and Suzanne Stabile, The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2016), 15.

  20. Check out Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths (New York: Free Press, 2001) or Tom Rath, StrengthsFinder 2.0 (New York: Gallup, 2001).

  21. Cron and Stabile, The Road Back to You, 31.

  22. 1 Corinthians 14:29.

  23. See 1 Corinthians 12:8–10.

  24. Matthew 7:6, NKJV.

  25. John 16:12.

  26. See 1 Corinthians 14:3.

  27. See Galatians 6:1.

  28. Numbers 11:29.

  29. Thanks to Lori Frost for this wonderful phrase and powerful principle.

  30. See Ephesians 2:10.

  31. Tom Kelley and David Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (New York: Crown Business, 2013), 56.

  32. Luke 7:39.

  33. “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,” Goodreads, www.goodreads.com/​quotes/​33242-if-you-treat-an-individual-as-he-is-he-will.

  34. See 1 Corinthians 14:3.

  35. Erwin McManus, “The Artisan Soul,” YouTube video, 16:40, from a TED Talk given November 15, 2014, posted April 14, 2015, www.youtube.com/​watch?v=XsJBGxmFQkU.

  36. Ephesians 4:15.

  37. See Luke 8:2.

  38. Elise Harris, “Mary Magdalene–‘Apostle to the Apostles’—Gets Upgraded Feast Day,” Catholic News Agency, July 22, 2016, www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/mary-magdalene-apostle-to-the-apostles-gets-upgraded-feast-day-77857.

  39. Carlos Whittaker, Moment Maker: You Can Live Your Life or It Will Live You (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013), 9.

  40. Whittaker, Moment Maker, 10.

  41. Whittaker, Moment Maker, 10.

  42. Timothy was half Jew, half Greek.

  43. It was Pastor Erwin McManus who first introduced me to this idea.

  44. Amit Amin, “The Power of Positivity, in Moderation: The Losada Ratio,” Happier Human, http://happierhuman.com/​losada-ratio/.

  Chapter 10: The Archer’s Paradox

  1. “History Lesson 1908,” Barefoot’s World, www.barefootsworld.net/​history_lesson_1908.html.

  2. “List of Largest Peaceful Gatherings in History,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​List_of_largest_peaceful_gatherings_in_history.

  3. “How Much Time Does It Take for a 95 M.P.H. Fastball to Reach Home Plate?,” Phoenix Bats, www.phoenixbats.com/​baseball-bat-infographic.html.

  4. David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance (New York: Penguin Group, 2014), 5.

  5. William Harris, “How the Physics of Baseball Works,” How Stuff Works: Entertainment, http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/​physics-of-baseball3.xhtml.

  6. Sarah Kaplan, “The Surprising Science of Why a Curveball Curves,” Washington Post, July 12, 2016, www.washingtonpost.com/​news/​speaking-of-science/​wp/​2016/​07/​12/​the-surprising-science-of-why-a-curveball-curves/?utm_term=.f40dd50097be.

  7. Ecclesiastes 3:1–8.

  8. Isaiah 30:21.

  9. Calvin Miller, Into the Depths of God: Where Eyes See the Invisible, Ears Hear the Inaudible, and Minds Conceive the Inconceivable (Bloomington, MN: Bethany, 2000), 50.

  10. Esther 4:14.

  11. “Kairos,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Kairos.

  12. Psalm 90:12.

  13. See Ephesians 5:16, KJV.

  14. Ephesians 5:16.

  15. 1 Corinthians 9:22.

  16. 2 Peter 3:8.

  17. See 1 Kings 11:12, 32; 15:4.

  18. 2 Kings 8:19, emphasis added.

  19. Esther 6:1–2.

  20. “Eleven Most Impressive Libraries from the Ancient World,” OnlineCollege.org, May 30, 2011, www.onlinecollege.org/​2011/​05/​30/​11-most-impressive-libraries-from-the-ancient-world/.

  21. “Congressional Record,” January 3, 2017, vol. 163, no. 1, www.congress.gov/​crec/​2017/​01/​03/​CREC-2017-01-03.pdf.

  22. Gary Wilkerson, David Wilkerson: The Cross, the Switchblade, and the Man Who Believed (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014), 76.

  23. See Nehemiah 1:11–2:5; Acts 8:26–40; 9:10–19; 10:1–44.

  24. Wilkerson, David Wilkerson, 35.

  25. Wilkerson, David Wilkerson, 76.

  26. Matthew 18:22, KJV.

  27. Jeffry Pilcher, “Say It Again: Messages Are More Effective When Repeated,” The Financial Brand, September 23, 2014, https://thefinancialbrand.com/​42323/​advertising-marketing-messages-effective-frequency/.

  28. See 1 Samuel 3:2–10; Mark 14:72; Acts 9:1–12.

  29. Acts 9:11–12.

  30. Haggai 1:14.

  31. William Samuelson and Richard Zeckhauser, “Status Quo Bias in Decision Making,” Journal of Risk and
Uncertainty 1 (1988): 7–59, www.hks.harvard.edu/​fs/​rzeckhau/​SQBDM.pdf.

  32. David Halpern, Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference (London: WH Allen, 2015), 3–4.

  33. Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, rev. ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 2009), 4.

  34. Thaler and Sunstein, Nudge, 38–39.

  35. Thaler and Sunstein, Nudge, 39.

  36. Thaler and Sunstein, Nudge, 3.

  37. “Sex and the Single Girl,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Sex_and_the_Single_Girl.

  38. Wilkerson, David Wilkerson, 114.

  39. Wilkerson, David Wilkerson, 114–15.

  40. Wilkerson, David Wilkerson, 132.

  41. “The Cross and the Switchblade,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​The_Cross_and_the_Switchblade.

  42. “Linda Kaplan Thaler,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Linda_Kaplan_Thaler.

  43. Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference (New York: Broadway Books, 2009), 78.

  Chapter 11: Joystick

  1. Martin Pistorius, Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2013), 15.

  2. Pistorius, Ghost Boy, 21.

  3. “Facts and Statistics,” Anxiety and Depression Association of America, www.adaa.org/​about-adaa/​press-room/​facts-statistics.

  4. See Genesis 3:16–17.

  5. See Revelation 21:4.

  6. Job 6:10.

  7. Logos Bible Software, Job 6:10, Gesenius’s Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures.

  8. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: HarperOne, 2015), 92.

  9. “No Pain, No Gain,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​No_pain,_no_gain#cite_note-5.

  10. See Job 1:20.

  11. David Scott, “Mother Teresa’s Long Dark Night,” Catholic Education Resource Center, www.catholiceducation.org/​en/​faith-and-character/​faith-and-character/​mother-teresas-long-dark-night.html.

  12. Matthew 27:46.

  13. See 2 Corinthians 12:7–10.

  14. Job 7:3, TLB.

  15. Job 42:12.

  16. See Philippians 1:6.

 

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