Live Fire with Chuck Holton

Andrew Carnegie wrote an article about his seven rules to success that was published in the Pittsburgh Bulletin in December 1903. The following list represents parts of that article.
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Here is an excerpt from a NY times article by Jeffery Goldberg. For the article he went to visit a Muslim Religious school in Pakistan (a madrasa), famous for turning out most of the Taliban’s leaders. He was assigned a “minder” named Mullah Muhammad. He gives a chilling picture of what we are up against in trying to rid the world of terrorists. The full text of the article can be found here.

Thanks to my friend Dean Peters for sending me this amazing article. Click “Read More” below for excerpts from the article.
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I stood at the edge of our pond at sunset the other night. It had been a perfect late-summer day. Temperature in the low 80’s, low humidity, a light breeze. A fish jumped in the pond. All was quiet, peaceful. Yet, it seemed like it shouldn’t be this way. That morning, I had watched in real time on television as the world trade centers had crumbled to the ground, snuffing out lives and bringing our great country to a crashing halt. My wife and I had sat glued to the television, stunned, aware that we were witnessing an event of such horrible historic significance as Pearl Harbor or Nagasaki.

All day long, I had listened to reporters interview people saying things like “I just can’t believe that the towers are gone! They were a symbol of America’s Pride!” and “They struck the Pentagon, a symbol of American might and power.”

Somehow this brought to mind the spring where we get the water for our farm.
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Millions of people went to work as usual on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001. For several thousand of them, however, it was to be the last day that they would do so, and none of them knew it.

So much has been said in the time since that tragic event about the horrible circumstances surrounding the deaths of so many people. Being crushed by a 110 story building will never be on anyone’s list of preferred methods of dying. Those people’s suffering cannot be overstated, and should never be downplayed. Let’s focus beyond the suffering for a moment, however, on a bigger picture.
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President Bush declared Friday, September 14th as a national day of “Prayer and Rememberance” for the victims of the terrorist attacks of the preceding Tuesday. The house and senate stood on the capitol steps and sang “God Bless America” for all the world. People are crying out to God in the public places, lighting candles and leaving messages for Him on walls of Rememberance all over the country.
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Isaiah 13:7,8
“Every arm is paralyzed with fear. Even the strongest hearts melt and are afraid. Fear grips them with terrible pangs, like those of a woman about to give birth. They look helplessly at one another as the flames of the burning city reflect on their faces.”

Sound familiar?

2 Timothy 1:7

“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline.”

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits, who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

So we don’t look at the troubles we can see right now; rather, we look
forward to what we have not yet seen. For the troubles we see will soon be
over, but the joys to come will last forever.

“Live Dangerously, take things as they come, dread nought, and all will be well.”
Winston S. Churchill

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.