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This post is the continuation and conclusion of The Rebekah Principle: Doing A Little Bit More [Part 1].

We pick up the narrative with the other women at the well who probably thought the gathering of water for their families to be simply mundane, ordinary work but, Rebekah speaks up and makes a difference. Keep these other ladies in mind as we go on.

Selfless

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Rebekah’s example of selfless service (toward an absolute stranger no less) illustrates three crucial lessons we all must learn if we truly desire to make a positive difference in our circumstances. Continue Reading…

This past weekend I had the privilege of speaking in the Sunday Teaching Service at Richvale Bible Chapel in Richmond Hill, Ontario. I met one of the church’s elders at a conference in Edmonton, Alberta earlier in the year; his booth (Promise Keepers Canada) was next to the Word of Life Canada booth I was manning and there was an instant comraderie and fellowship.

Two Mile Marker

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I spoke on the topic of “The Rebekah Principle: Doing a Little Bit More.” I was first introduced to this principle by a missionary preacher when I was teenager and it’s something that has stuck with me all these years. (Had I taken better notes back then, I’d be able to remember exactly which missionary preacher it was!)

This Sunday was not the first time I’ve given this message but as I prepared it for this specific audience, I was again reminded of how powerful the principle can be when applied wholeheartedly to one’s life. Continue Reading…

Never do anything that someone else can and will do when there is so much of importance to be done which others cannot or will not do.

Dawson Trotman
Daws: The Biography of Dawson Trotman, Founder of the Navigators (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1974), 82