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Samson: A Story of God's Amazing Grace

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Samson. He was a deliverer or judge God gave as Judges 13:5 puts it, to begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. Probably you have heard something of this Bible character. We will begin a series on his life story as told to us in the book of Judges 13 to 16. As we begin, let me ask you, What first comes to your mind when you hear that name, Samson? Do you first think of how strong Samson was? Certainly, he proved to be strong above many. What he had to learn though was that his strength came from God and not from his muscles. Isnt that, in fact, something we all need to learn, and relearn time and again?

It could be in that regard, when you hear the name, Samson, you dont think about how strong he was at all but rather about how weak he was. And it is true, what a weakling Samson proved to be over against sin and temptation! Samson lived in sin all too often, openly so even. He had little or no self-control. He fell for evil every time again. If you should say that the name, Samson, makes you think of someone very weak rather than someone very strong that too would make sense.

But do you know something else you should think of when you hear that name, Samson? That name should bring to mind the grace of God, indeed, the astounding grace of God! Why? Well, Samsons story, as no doubt many of you may know, is quite a wild account. You could even say, respectfully speaking, it is a rather strange story altogether. But then from another reference to Samson in the Bible, in Hebrews 11:32 we learn that Samson is included among the children of God. Yes, he is included in the list of Old Testament believers. And this fact alone, as well as Samsons complete story, shows us in various ways the amazing grace of God. Surely this is the real reason why Samsons story is included in the Bible too. Namely, that you and I might marvel at Gods amazing grace in the deliverance of His people, in the merciful and bountiful salvation of undeserving sinners.

In this introductory sermon on Samson we will have as our theme, Samson: a story of Gods amazing grace. And we will notice this by thinking about:

1. The particulars of Samsons story

2. The picture in Samsons story

3. The point of Samsons story.

Following the text along these points it should become clear that Samsons incredible story is, indeed, about the amazing grace of God.

Looking first at the particulars detailed in Samsons story, lets notice Gods grace displayed in different ways. Just think first of all of the setting of Samsons story. It is found in the book of Judges and took place in that time of Israels history. The book of Judges tells us about the people of Israel in Canaan after the time of Joshua. What must be said about the Israelites especially in that time period? Oh, time and again, they forsook God and His ways; and they mixed with the heathens, and followed after their ways and their idols. A repeated refrain in the Book of Judges is, And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and the book ends by telling us, Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes. That is the way Gods covenant people lived.

Every time the people forsook God and followed after their own ways, the book of Judges tells us that God would send enemy nations to oppress Israel. When the Israelites would cry to Him for help, the Lord would send a deliverer to rescue them from their oppressors. But after that deliverer had died, they would go back to their old ways. The Book of Judges tells us of twelve judges or deliverers that God gave in the period of about three hundred and fifty years after Joshua. And with Samson, God was once again showing mercy to Israel. He would raise up yet a thirteenth judge, or deliverer, to help Israel, this time from the oppression of the Philistines. Judges 13 begins by saying, And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord. And the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

Friends, dont you see Gods amazing grace in the fact that God didnt wipe out the rebellious, stubborn, wicked Israelites; and that He set a time limit to the Philistine oppression? That was grace! The LORD would send yet another deliverer to rescue sinful Israel from their oppressors! The Bible says God is long-suffering and slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. We certainly see this when, once more, God deals graciously with a stiff-necked Israel, in giving yet another leader to rescue them from the Philistines. Gods merciful, kind, patient ways with Israel were so undeserved. And isnt it the case that Gods people today will acknowledge the same about Gods merciful dealings with them? When you are Gods child, you know in how many ways every day we fail and falter, again and again. And all His loving-kindness toward you and me is surely most undeserved. Gods amazing grace comes through in the story of Samson when you think of the setting of the story. It is extra amazing in this chapter in that we dont even read in this case that the Israelites cried to God for relief from their troubles under the Philistines. It is certainly the case, even before they cried at all, God already was preparing a remedy and deliverer for them in their needs. Amazingly even unasked for, and before they called, God was already planning and providing a deliverer for them. Oh, what an amazing God of grace is the God of our salvation, that God as ultimately revealed also in the Person and work of Jesus Christ the Savior of sinners! It is amazing some of the parallels between Judges 13 and Luke 1&2 when you reflect on it.

Surely Gods amazing grace also comes to the foreground not just in the setting of Judges 13, but when you consider too the miraculous birth of Samson. The text tells us clearly that Manoahs wife was not able to have children; she was barren; and without Gods intervention, she would have stayed barren. In a humanly impossible situation, God came through with His almighty power! We see that more often in the Bible in the history of redemption. Think of Sarah and Abram, Rebekah and Issac, Rachel and Jacob. Hannah and Elkanah, and then Elizabeth and Zacharias, and ultimately, of course, think of the virgin birth of Jesus. With the birth of Samson to a woman who had been barren, God, as it were, wants to highlight to the Israelites, and to us, Deliverance comes from me, from the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord! It is His gift, His grace, His doing. What is impossible with men is possible with Him, even also when His help is so undeserved by us, or even asked for. You see, God is a God of amazing grace. The particular details of Samsons story help bring this out.

Indeed, cant we see Gods amazing grace also in the way that God would have Samson especially dedicated to Him from his infancy? Samson was to be a Nazarite Judges 13 tells us, which means someone especially dedicated, specially separated for God, devoted to Him. In Numbers 6 God gives guidelines for Nazarites. In most cases, that special devotion would be for a limited time. But Samson was to be especially devoted to God all of his life! His special devotion was to be marked in three particular ways: Samson was not to drink any wine or any alcohol. He was to keep from all unclean foods, as spoken of in Gods Old Testament ceremonial laws, and he was never to cut his hair. Three times in our text chapter, in verses 5, 7 and 14, the fact that Samson was to be a lifetime Nazarite gets emphasized. And we can learn from this with Samson God would raise up a very special deliverer and judge for Israel.

Gods amazing grace in the story of Samson further comes across in the godly parents he was given. Samsons parents, Manoah and his wife, were from the tribe of Dan, which was not a very God-fearing tribe at all as you can find out if you read Judges 18. But here was a godly couple in the midst of a godless people. The chapter tells how both Manoah and his wife wanted to be faithful parents and to do what God wanted them to do for their child. They wanted to do their outmost in the bringing up of their child in Gods ways in line with Gods Word and will. Isnt this what all true Christian parents are conscientious about as well?

What a blessing and how important it is when both mom and dad trust and serve the Lord, and as are a team together in Gods ways. How many children today are raised in broken homes and divided homes. Samson had that gracious privilege of having a godly father and godly mother. When you and I may be raised as children in a Christian home, even if it is a one-parent home, there is so much reason to be thankful when our parents are Christian. God took care that Samson would have a good upbringing with his godly parents, and in this too Gods amazing grace comes to the fore, especially considering the days of the judges when almost everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

Certainly, looking at these particulars of Samsons story as given in our text chapter, you can see Gods amazing grace in giving such a leader at such a time for such a people. And then, when you consider further the continued story of Samson as told in Judges 14-16, and as you may be aware of, how miserably sinful Samsons life really was! You will know how he squandered his privileges, how he violated his special consecration as a Nazarite in every respect, as we shall see in the coming weeks. And yet, in spite of all of his waywardness and sin, God still used him to begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines. Finally, as Hebrews 11 tells us, Samson did die as a child of God. Considering all that, dont we have to say how amazing the strange story of Samson is? That God would raise up such a leader, and use such a leader, and spare such a leader, and save such a leader is amazing grace from beginning to end!

But now lets move on to our second main point and see how Samsons story is a story of amazing grace, not just from the particulars of his story but from the picture in Samsons story. Here you will have to listen well to follow me. Taking the whole story of Samson, its quite clear with the sending of Samson, the Lord didnt only give the Israelites another deliverer or judge, but with him God also gave the Israelites a picture of what they were like as a people. Yes, God was holding up Samson before the Israelites as a sort of mirror for them to see themselves.

Let me explain this more. As Samson had all kinds of favors in his birth and upbringing, so did the Israelites, among all the nations of the world. For no reason in themselves, God wonderfully and especially reached out to the Israelites. He favored them, nurtured them, and blessed them. And they were to be a people especially consecrated to the Lord. A holy separate people living to Gods praise and glory! In the way of loving trusting obedience to God, they would be wonderfully blessed, and so also be a great blessing to the ends of the earth. But what had the Israelites done? They squandered their blessings, despised their privileges, and mixed with the heathens in adulterous relations and idolatrous ways, and they brought misery upon themselves and became a weak and shameful people. And it seemed like the Israelites refused to learn their lesson, not to stray from God but to trust and obey Him always. No, time and again, they went back to doing evil and turning away from God!

So now with their next deliverer, the last judge before Samuel and the time of the kings, God gives a leader yet who reflects exactly what Israel was like. Samson, by Gods overruling design, without at all controlling him, was an instrument in Gods hand to exhibit to his age generally a picture. A vivid picture, on the one hand, of the strength that the people of God might have to overcome their strongest foes through faithful submission to the Lord their God. And then on the other hand, a revealing picture of their weakness into which they would sink through repeated unfaithfulness to the covenant and their mixing with the heathens.

In other words, we can say, Samsons life story is like a visible preaching from God, whereby God would yet in another way show the Israelites what they were like, and what their continued waywardness would result in for them. In Samsons story, God visibly teaches what His heroes, what His favored ones come to if once they prostitute their God-given strengths and blessings to the base love of self and to this flattering world. The worlds pleasures and the lusts of the flesh draw the secret of true strength from us. Always sins pathway leaves a person weak and helpless, robbed of power and strength in Gods ways. This also happened so miserably to Samson because of his willful, wayward, ways. And Samsons story reflects Israels story. Do you see this picture with me in Samsons story?

Realizing this picture God would give with Samsons story should help us better understand also this rather strange and wild story of Samson being included in the Bible. Its a true story not so much about Samson as about Gods amazing grace really. Indeed, even in the fact that God by this means also would arrest the attention of his wayward people. Imagine God, as it were, putting this picture of Samsons life before the people of old, and saying as it were, Here! Let me show you with the striking figure of Samson the way things are, and what you are like. And now think of this, dear friends, in Gods amazing grace, He is showing this old picture to you and to me too. Do you think we need to have this picture shown to us as well? Im sure we do! Its a real blessing, in fact, an undeserved favor that God would bother to show us this picture also. Maybe seeing this story of Samson before us in the coming weeks, God willing, is exactly what you need, yes, either as a seed of regeneration and awakening in Gods ways in spirit and truth or as food for your soul and encouragement in Gods ways. Without question, this picture of Samsons life will be something most relevant for us all.

Possibly his picture in fact exactly describes your case too, even your present situation. I mean with that perhaps you too, like Samson, have been blessed with some form of Christian upbringing, and raised in a covenant of grace context, consecrated to God from birth even. But could it be, while given all kinds of gospel privileges from your childhood even, yet you are still unconverted to God, and living basically a wayward, worldly life? Like Samson, could it be the Delilahs of this world and the lusts of the flesh have ensnared you and sapped you of all possible spiritual life, and that explains your half-heartedness in Gods ways? Your lack of zeal for God, your not getting anywhere in your pursuit after God, but just going more and more downhill as it were; and being uninterested and uninvolved in the ways of God and His service. At best you are like John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress character, Mr. Facing both ways, double-minded and double hearted in relation to God and therefore, like Samson, so unstable in all your ways? Is that your case, your picture?

It hardly needs mentioning that the church in the western world is generally quite flabby, lame, and lukewarm, and so much like the world. Samsons picture is relevant for us too, in that regard, isnt it? When God wishes to expose to us the condition in our lives and the generally sad condition of his church today by showing us the picture of Samson, we should see in that His amazing grace. For Gods intention in exposing these realities of our hearts and lives and of our spiritual condition is for our good and not out of ill-will. The Lord seeks to convict of sin that He might lead us on in the way of true and on-going conversion.

Saying this brings me to the third point, in which we consider the point of Samsons story. With Samsons story, God would lead sinners; He would lead His people in the way of true faith, of true repentance, and true devotion before Him. God is not desirous to see anyone perish in sin. Nor does He delight to see His people in a weak and oppressed condition. With Samsons story, Gods point is not so much to condemn and to destroy as to awaken and to stir up in the ways of grace and truth. This gracious point of Samsons story can be confirmed from at least two factors in connection with our text chapter.

For one, think of the Angel who brought the message about Samson to Manoah and his wife: the message about his birth and calling. We may conclude from the text that the angel was actually God, and specifically, the second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ. We may believe this because when Manoah asks for his name, the heavenly visitor responds saying, Why do you ask for my name, seeing it is secret? The word secret literally is the word wonderful. And now who alone in the Bible is given that name, wonderful? The Messiah, Jesus Christ, is given this name as prophesied in Isaiah 9:6. We are told there, For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called wonderful, counselor, almighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. That name, wonderful, in Isaiah 9:6 is the same word as translated secret in the King James Version in Judges 13:8. And notice we are told this heavenly visitor did wondrously. Here is the same word again. He did wondrously when Manoah and his wife came with their offerings for the Lord. With the pre-incarnate Savior himself being the angel of the Lord in this story, dont we see God, with the sending of Samson, reaching out to His people? And reaching out especially in view of His own once for all sacrifice offered to God on Golgotha? Dont we see too that the Lord is so desirous to protect His people, to guide them, and to teach them in the way that they should go?

Wasnt God, through Samson, preparing His people for a greater Deliverer who was to come? The Israelites and all of us need a deliverer who is not only very very strong, but also very very pure. We need a deliverer who not only begins to deliver us from some of our oppressors, but we need a Savior who completely and perfectly delivers us from all our oppressors, especially from Satan and from sin, and from the world, death, and hell. And Jesus, the infinitely strong one and the infinitely Holy One, who suffered and died on sinners behalf, as the just for the unjust, who arose three days later and afterwards wondrously ascended into heaven, is that great Savior, the great deliverer of His people, even for as many as trust and obey Him!

With the sending of Samson, God in Christ, as the mediator of the covenant of grace, meant good for His covenant people. He meant to protect His people and to lead them onward. His call to them with Samson was, as it were, Dont stray from me! Follow close behind me. Turn from your sin, and trust and obey me; and I will lead you in the way of blessing. Blessings untold are found in and through Me, even as I have promised throughout the generations. And, dear friends, that same call now comes to you and to me, living in the days since the Messiah has come. Are you listening to that loving gospel call always to seek and serve the Lord, looking unto Jesus?

We know that when the call came in the days of the Old Testament, in the days of the Judges, there were people who did not heed the call. There were people who still wouldnt hear what God was saying. Thats the way it is today too, sadly and tragically so. Will you too be one who refuses to listen to Gods gospel call, also as it comes even from Samsons life story in the book of Judges? God forbid that you will turn your back on the only hope of salvation through Jesus Christ the Saviour, even as He graciously reaches out to you again now.

Another fact pointing out the Lords goodwill in sending Samson and having him serve as a mirror for the people and to awaken them is the words of Manoahs wife in vs 23. Manoah thought they would die, having seen a divine messenger from heaven who had come to tell them about the special child they would receive. But his wife, we are told, wisely said to her husband, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received the burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands. Neither would He have showed us all these things, nor would He at this time have told us such things as these. These are remarkable words of faith. If God comes in His revelation to us, Hes coming in mercy and in love, she said. She understood Gods revelation of Himself to be a revelation of grace and mercy.

How much better we should understand that in our New Testament age. Do you understand this message of Gods Word even now, dear friends? In Gods Word, including the book of Judges even, God comes with the offer of peace and pardon, and the offer of a blessed and fulfilling life, and the gift of eternal life for undeserving sinners, even as we seek and follow after Him. This nameless woman, Manoahs wife, understood that Gods revelation through the Angel of God and His Word meant that God was being gracious. And when God comes to us now with His Word also, He is being gracious. Hes out to give His grace and mercy to as many as will ask. Its still the time of grace, and God is still, through the preaching of His Word, calling for sinners to be saved by grace alone, by faith alone in Him, and calling for His people to be loyal to Him and to be truly living in His service in accordance with His Word. The story of Samson urges us to take His message to heart today and always.

It is a story of Gods amazing grace as made clear from the particulars of his story, the picture in his story, and the point of his story. Even Judges 13, wrote one commentator correctly, wants us to jump up and sing the doxology. Indeed, for the story of Samson is another story of Gods amazing grace for such undeserving sinful sinners like you and me. Dont let his story be one that further condemns you, but rather let it be a message that causes you to join in the praise of the redeemed. Amen.

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Happy holidays! We’re counting down to 2015 and we wanted to announce that we’ll be giving away this 3D printed ring in the new year. The ring was 3D printed in Shapeways’ Polished Silver material and will go to one winner who can correctly identify which of the shown rings is an actual photo (the other is a computer render). Share and comment on this post or on any of our social media posts about it or simply fill out our contact form (be sure to mention this post) to enter to win. Indicate which one is a photograph by saying the top ring or bottom ring. We’ll be taking answers until December 31, 2014 at 11:59PM. We’ll draw a winner at random from all the correct answers on New Year’s day.

The photo was taken in my office.

The computer render was created using Blender:

Stay tuned for more about the render after the winner has been announced!

  1. CC says:

    Top ring

    Will you share the render-setup ?
    Very impressive.

  2. David says:

    The top ring is the photo

  3. Alejandro says:

    bottom ring is a photograph.

  4. Paige says:

    Bottom ring

  5. Charles says:

    If you look at it closely, the bottom ring is the render. As you look at it, one the right side, isn’t quite right. The shadows on the bottom have very fine lines in it, which won’t be in a photo. Then there is the matter of the shadows on the metal. They are very good and very close but they too don’t quite match up consistently.

  6. Ronyx69 says:

    The bottom one is the render. You can see that it is most likely a single layer material, there is no big highlight spread like you see in the first one (which is seen in real materials). Also the color is completely uniform in the render, if you bring up saturation, you can see that on a real metal the color drops off when you look at it at an angle because of how fresnel works. And then there’s also the sudden change in the angle of the background, because I can see in your photo setup, you put a flat sheet on top of the curved surface, but you didn’t do that in the render. For some reason the render is brighter and more contrasty, you could’ve eliminated any trace of cg evidence just by color correcting it to match the photo.

    But the render is top notch, I couldn’t tell if I wasn’t told to look.

  7. Steve says:

    The bottom one is the render. The materials are too uniform on the bottom. That’s my guess!

  8. Lu Anne Stone says:

    I think it’s the top!

  9. bottom one is the real one top is the fake

  10. C. says:

    Top ring is the render. Very nicely done on both counts: both an excellent photo and clean render.

  11. Sandro says:

    Top one is the photo, bottom is a render.

  12. Ghazanfar Ali Riaz says:

    top ring

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  14. marybeth says:

    I think that the top ring is the real photo but it is really difficult to say for certain either way!

  15. Gerardo Gherbaz says:

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  16. john roller says:

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  17. lisa roller says:

    the top is the computer generated ring

  18. megan roller says:

    bottom ring is the reproduction by computer
    I would love to win the ring!

  19. jallwine says:

    The TOP ring is the real one. Of the 59 submissions, 37 correctly chose the real ring. I selected a winner at random and am waiting for a reply. I’ll put another post together about my blender setup for the render soon.

    Happy New Year everyone!

  20. Cheri-Lee says:

    The bottom one is the actual ring

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Change Model – The Cultural Web (Part 2) Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:04:28 +0000 last blog post, we began taking about a powerful model and simple tool, the Cultural Web, you can use to institute change within your organization.]]> In our last blog post, we began taking about a powerful model and simple tool, the Cultural Web, you can use to institute change within your organization. As a refresher, the model looks like this:

Picture taken from “What is the Cultural Web?” Innovation for Growth blog

Picture taken from “What is the Cultural Web?” Innovation for Growth blog

Remember, in the front and center of this model is the paradigm. The paradigm is your organization culture, which is the result of the interplay of these six areas. The six areas are: stories, symbols, power structures, organizational structures, control systems, and rituals and routines.

Last time, we discussed stories, symbols, and power structures. Today, we will discuss the last three of these areas:

Organizational Structures

Everyone has some sort of a wire diagram or an org chart, but now we want to look at the question of “do we have the right organizational structure to get what we want?” Are we centralized? Are we decentralized? What works best for our situations? Then, once again, we have to look at the informal structures.

Does anyone remember the character of Radar O’Reilly from M*A*S*H? It was a comedy set during the Korean war, and O’Reilly was someone that people would go to and ask “Radar, can you get me XYZ?” and he would go out and he would talk to somebody, and he would trade with somebody, and all of a sudden he would get what was needed. How you get things done –trade, barter – unofficially? What is that informal structure in addition to the formal?

Control Systems

When you hear, “control systems,” you think of Finance, Quality Control, and those kinds of things, but they also include organizational incentives and regulations. What are you measuring? What are you encouraging?

You may have heard the phrase, “you get what you measure.” You have to be wary of what actions you are incentivizing or else you may not be getting the outcomes you want.

Rituals and Routines

Think about when a customer walks into your door: how is he or she handled? That’s a routine. How do you process a vacation request through your system? That’s a routine. Rituals may be seen in how you reward your salespeople. Is there a big party celebrating high performing salespeople at the end of the year? Do we all meet at the water cooler on Fridays? All those things are very wrapped up in how you carry on your daily business.

Putting it All Together

When you add up all these areas that we’ve discussed, you start to notice how they interact with each other. For example, stories affected both our symbols and rituals in my Navy Recruiting command story. Each month when a command made their mission goals, the ritual was to ring a bell. They always rang the bell for when the active duty recruiters made their mission, but doing so did not necessarily depend on the stats from the reserve mission, the other half of the command merger. The incoming command admiral changed that ritual. For forty months in a row, he said, “No, we haven’t made all our missions, so we aren’t ringing the bell.” By changing that ritual, it forced us to change our story and some of the control systems until we got the results we wanted, which was to make ALL of the missions.

As an exercise for yourself, take at least one of the six areas and think about how your organization currently handles them. You can then see, both from the examples above and your own exploration, how the Culture Web is a simple and powerful tool you can use to create positive cultural changes in your organization. If you are interested in more information about this tool and how to use it, contact me!

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Change Model – The Cultural Web (Part 1) Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:22:18 +0000 How do you start instituting change within your organization? A simple model and tool that you can use is called the Cultural Web. Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes created this change tool in 1992. The model looks like this:

Picture taken from “What is the Cultural Web?” Innovation for Growth blog

Picture taken from “What is the Cultural Web?” Innovation for Growth blog

In the front and center of this model is the paradigm. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines paradigm as a typical pattern, an example, a model. The paradigm is your organization culture. It has six different areas surrounding it, which are modeled like a web because these areas all interact with each other. The paradigm is what your culture is as the result of the interplay of these six areas.

The six areas of the Culture Web model are: stories, symbols, power structures, organizational structures, control systems, and rituals and routines.

In this blog post, we will discuss the first three of these areas:

1. Stories

This is the first area we see around the paradigm. Stories are the language of your organization. People talk about their organization’s mission and vision. It’s your reputation. It’s the language of the way people talk about you.

When your employees talk about the organization do they say, “This is a great place!” or do they say, “Avoid it! Do not show up here. I wouldn’t want you working here.” Any language dealing with your organization falls under stories.

Organizational guru Chris Argyris said that there’s often an espoused theory and an actual theory being used in organizations. Many times our vision is espoused – this is what we want to happen. But how do we actually do business? What is our actual behavior? So when we take a look at our stories, we want to take a look at what the actual language is that’s being used within them.

Here’s an example of how we can change a story: I was taking over a Navy Recruiting command in the Northeast and recruiting was difficult. The leadership was saying that the goals were “too high and too challenging, and they aren’t given to us correctly, so just do the best you can to meet them.” The message being given through the language of the leadership was that it was okay to fail.

To fix that, one of the things we instituted was to change that story: “Hey, we know the goals are demanding but the Navy is depending on us to provide these people. You are good, we believe in you, and we expect you to make mission.” Just by changing the story, we changed the team’s production because people said, “Hey, they expect this, they believe in us.”

2. Symbols

Think of logos. When I say “Starbucks,” that word brings something immediately to mind. McDonald’s. Apple. These names have obvious symbols.

But there are many other symbols types that you can find used within your organization. For example: dress codes – think about how formal or informal your company dress is. IBM – what comes to mind? Google – what comes to mind? What type of office does each CEO have? These are all symbols. You want to make sure those symbols are positive.

A big symbol in the D.C. area is that of the Redskins football team. What’s the symbol there? There are a whole lot of different areas to this that can be used with that one logo. It’s not a positive logo, is it? It’s important enough that you want to take a look at your symbols along with all the other areas.

3. Power structures

These are not only the official power structures, but also takes into account who in the organization really makes the decisions. I think we’ve all worked in situations where nothing moves until the guy sitting over there shook his head. That is a person who has power. Maybe it could be a budget person, maybe senior leadership, maybe an executive’s assistant, but it also may be an R&D person. It is whoever has power, whether formally or informally, that you may want to observe and to note.

In our next blog post, we will look at the other three areas of this model and start to think about how they all interact with each other.

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What is Employee Engagement? Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:35:21 +0000

You can’t buy a bucket of engagement, but you know it when you see it.

Here’s a great example. There’s a brand new tea shop that opened up a mile away from my house. But when we walked in for the first time, my friend and I, there was this immense wall of different types of teas, all in little cubbies and boxes and things, and it was very confusing and overwhelming. It was especially confusing for someone like me who doesn’t know much about tea. The salesperson came up to me and slowly she walked me through it, answering my questions. Partway through answering all my questions, she realized that I didn’t know what I was talking about and didn’t have a clue which tea to get. She then asked me a series of questions to guide me along in my decision-making process, showing me the layout and where the caffeinated and non-caffeinated teas were. She was a little low-key, but that tone was just perfect for the type of conversation that I wanted to have. By the end of our conversation, I had purchased a fair amount of product.

If this salesperson had just sat by the cash register when we walked in – which she could have easily done – I would have bought nothing. I would have walked right back out of the door, because the store was overwhelming. Because of the way she handled me and my friend, I not only bought a lot of product, but I also became a pretty loyal customer.

That’s where an engaged employee shows up. That’s where an engaged employee drives value. Wherever a person sits in an organization that has to provide a service to others, internally or externally, that’s where engagement will show up.

As a business owner, or someone advising businesses, why would you care about having an engaged employee? For two basic reasons:

First of all, as seen in my example, engagement increases the top line. It improves revenue. There is an employee-customer-profit chain: A study done at Sears found that if you improved employee engagement, customer service improves, resulting in a measureable increase in revenue at the end of 90 days.

But even more importantly, it drops your bottom line. It reduces the expenses of turnover and sick days. It eliminates presenteeism, where people are just there to collect a paycheck. Gallup last spring released a study saying that 70 percent of the American workforce was un-engaged or actively disengaged. Only 30 percent of the workforce was considered engaged. And what is even scarier was that only 25 percent of those who considered themselves senior leadership were considered engaged. That’s what’s scary when thinking about American business – how much potential is squandered because of lack of engagement.

But that’s engagement: It’s a lagging indicator that shows us a glimpse what is already happening in the organization. In our next blog post, I will look at how an organization’s culture can create that engagement among the staff.

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What makes a successful organization? Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:18:34 +0000

What makes up a successful organization? When you think of a successful organization, what are the words that come to mind?

Good strategy? Top notch performance? Creative marketing? Happy customers? Innovative products and services?

All of these things – strategy, performance, marketing, customer service, innovation – are just the tip of the organizational iceberg. These are all the things that people see.

In my opinion, all these things are a lagging indicator of the health of an organization. We talked about transparency and people, but where I see the underlying part of that iceberg is the people – engaged people – and a winning culture.

Have you ever heard the phrase, “culture eats strategy for breakfast”? Peter Drucker is attributed to saying that. But if you want to move your organization forward and the culture isn’t set up well, even the best crafted strategy will never happen.

In the upcoming set of blog posts, I will look at the huge roles that engagement and culture play in creating a healthy, successful organization, and discuss some strategies you can employ in your own organization to get you closer to that goal. Watch this space!

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Insights from the 2015 Mentor Capital Network Annual Gathering Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:58:20 +0000 Neal Henderson, Founder and Principal of FrontRow Performance Coaching, was honored to present a workshop session on “Creating a Vibrant, Engaged Workplace Culture” at the Mentor Capital Network (MCN) 2015 Annual Gathering, held July 9-10, 2015 at the United Nations in New York City.

Convened in partnership with the UN Office for Partnerships, the MCN team – especially Executive Director Ian Fisk, Program Coordinator Rachel Andersen, and Outreach and Marketing Coordinator Suzannah Simmons – put on an excellent, wall-to-wall packed two-day event that provided a fantastic opportunity to network with many innovative thinkers and doers in the social enterprise space.

MCN, formerly known as the William James Foundation, supports exceptional entrepreneurs who are building or growing companies that are solving the world’s toughest social and environmental challenges through profitable business models. The highlight of the annual gathering was the showcasing of the finalists of MCN’s 2015 William James Sustainable Business Plan Competition, which provides mentorship, feedback and promotion to participating entrepreneurs, as well as serving as a valuable, vetted pipeline for investors.

Congratulations to the top four companies in the competition: 1st place winner, Sanivation, which addresses sanitation challenges in Kenya; 2nd place winner, Estufa Dona Dora, which provides a more efficient wood-burning stove for use in Guatemala; 3rd place winner, Eqalix, which has developed a plant-based skin substitute wound dressing; and 4th place winner, Remright, which created a cost comparison website that allows immigrants to quickly compare and find needed services for international money transfers. It was exciting to see how Social Entrepreneurs are taking on a wide variety of global social challenges.

Over the course of the MCN Gathering, we heard many humbling and inspiring presentations. Throughout, MCN Alumni provided updates on their successes since winning previous Business Plan Competitions. Keynote speaker Paul Saginaw, co-founder of Zingerman’s Delicatessen, conveyed how he nurtured his businesses while remaining aligned with community needs. He also shared the insight that if you want your staff to provide outstanding customer service, leadership needs to provide outstanding service to the staff. During the “Clean Tech Green Grab,” three companies — the Iron Goat, Fuego Del sol Haiti, and Wello — made funding pitches, and it was amazing to see the focus on business details in determining if a business was viable for investment, as well as its ability to impact a social issue. Listening later to the presentation of Emily Woods, co-founder of Sanivation, you could hear her enthusiasm for her product and grasp the breadth of her technical skills.

MCN demonstrated how an entrepreneurial community can be supportive and committed to organizational excellence without fostering a highly-charged, competitive environment. Being part of this event solidified our connection to social entrepreneurs as a group and reinforced FRPC’s commitment to serving the social impact community. We look forward to more opportunities to work with these types of growing enterprises.

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2015 Nonprofit Capacity Conference in Review Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:04:10 +0000 Neal Henderson Speaking at the 2015 Nonprofit Capacity Conference in Crystal City, VA

Neal Henderson Speaking at the 2015 Nonprofit Capacity Conference in Crystal City, VA

The Front Row Performance Coaching (FRPC) team was privileged to participate in this year’s Nonprofit Capacity Conference. It was as perfect as an event can unfold, which was due to the hard work and tireless efforts of Rachael Gains and Dr. Liz Scott.

The conference, which is the brainchild of Dr. Scott, celebrated its 3rd year with an amazing slate of speakers, topics for discussion, exhibitors and participants. We enjoyed our conversation with everyone that stopped by our table.

My personal highlights were presenting “Engaging and Maximizing the Efforts of Your Volunteers” and listening to the three keynote speakers. The speakers captured the focus and energy of the conference.

Mary Agee kicked off the day by reminding us everyone is a leader, and that when we lead, our organizations and communities benefit.

Sandra Crowe helped the audience practice body positioning and poses that help increase self-confidence. She reminded us that we can use these poses and the corresponding confidence boost when having difficult conversations.

Closing out the conference, Eric Peterson did a wonderful job of highlighting biases we unconsciously default to. With greater awareness of these biases, we are able to make better decisions or take better actions.

There were many conference door prizes. I am pleased to announce Sylvia Benatti, Roxanne Camara, and Kelly Cox won Workplace Stars ORG360 Employee Engagement Surveys donated by FRPC, and Paula Boland was selected to receive a full professional coaching program from FRPC. Congratulations to all of our winners.

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Neal Henderson to Speak at the 2015 Nonprofit Capacity Conference Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:35:07 +0000 Nonprofit Capacity ConferenceNeal Henderson, Founder of Front Row Performance Coaching LLC, will present at the 2015 Nonprofit Capacity Conference in Crystal City on April 2. The conference will leverage the diverse insights that only cross-sector collaboration can offer through informative workshops, best practices panel discussions, plenary sessions, networking opportunities, and an exhibitor showcase.

Neal will be presenting on the topic of Volunteer Engagement and will explain how having the right approach, utilizing the right resources, and seeking the right guidance will make you a champion in building a sustainable, top-notch volunteer workforce.

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There are few people alive today who can recall a year without Veteran’s Day; even fewer of them can say they were alive during The Great War. It stands to reason, therefore, that our collective memory of the reasons for Veteran’s Day is dwindling. So, to give some context to this post, here’s the $10 refresher:

World War I was a brutal conflict that killed 8.5 million of the 65 million men who fought from 1914-1918 (PBS WWI Casualty and Death Tables). An armistice halted fighting on November 11, 1918, and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919 officially ended the war. In November of 1919, 1 year after the ceasefire, President Wilson proclaimed November 11th to be Armistice Day. He said in his dedication speech: “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…” (Department of Veterans Affairs). In 1954, Congress changed the name of the holiday to Veteran’s Day to honor veterans of all wars, not just WWI.

What It’s Really About

As a former service member myself, I know what I’m about to write may ruffle some feathers, but bear with me: I believe that this day should be about focusing on those who served and are still here. Memorial Day is in place to pay respect to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Instead, today, let’s think about everyone – both military and civilian – who’s been of service: from the active duty members to the W.A.V.E.S and W.A.S.P., from the engineers and Merchant Marines to the ordinary people who worked a spectrum of jobs.

Doing Something More

Today there are over 21 million veterans in the workforce (Bureau of Labor Statistics), and it may surprise you to learn the important roles some of them have played in our society. For instance, Bob Ballard, the discoverer of the Titanic, was a Naval Reserve Officer; Neal Armstrong, best known as the first man on the moon, was a Naval Aviator; and we can’t forget that John Glenn, one of the first men to go into space, was also a Marine Officer. Last week at least 22 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans won their races on election night (Navy Times, Nov 5th).

Away from the spotlight, the number of veterans living with physical and emotional reminders of their service is at an all-time high. It is easy to lose sight of these patriots when they are no longer at the front lines, which is why today has to be about more than just memories. When our veterans walk amongst us, it is our responsibility to not forget everything they have done (and often given up) in service of this country.

Say Hello

So as you watch the parades, or hear the President speak at Arlington National Cemetery, or rock out to the Concert for Valor, take a moment to reflect upon what veterans have meant to this country, and then go visit a VA hospital and say hello. You could be the person who makes this day more meaningful for them.

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Finding a Money Lender One of the largest mistakes which the new real estate investors make is that they are going to spend a huge amount of tie to know about looking and typing up the deals but a small amount of time is spent on knowing how to raise such equity capital from money lenders. It is very important for the real estate investors to know the ins as well as the outs in raising money when looking for a deal. Finding a deal is fantastic but when you don’t have the earnest money for tying up a deal or the funds to buy it, then all your time and effort will be wasted for nothing. When you are going to make an offer on a piece of property, then it is usually required that you would put earnest money deposit down with the offer. If you are presently living paycheck to paycheck and you have a few hundred dollars, this can be a big obstacle when launching your investment in the real estate business. Thus, if you work on raising the capital from such private money lenders in locking up the deals, then you will have such higher chance for success in the investment. You should learn how to get a capital from private lenders so that you can successfully connect and invest also invest in the real estate projects. You have to know more about the private money lender circles.
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Watching the Holiday Classics is one of our favorite family traditions! From Elf to Home Alone to Christmas Vacation, we love getting in our PJs, grabbing a snack and turning on the TV to watch one of our many favorite movies. To make your holiday movie nights extra special this year, try serving your kiddos a festive snack to go along with the movie! And have them help in the kitchen to make some holiday memories and set holiday traditions! Here are some "Pinterest-y" suggestions that don't take too much time, too many ingredients, or a degree in snack making.

"How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

Grinch Fruit Kabobs - Here's a fun and healthy snacks the kids will love! All you need are green grapes, banana slices, strawberries and mini marshmallows. put them all together with a toothpick and you have tasty Grinch kabobs!

Grinch Punch - To make this yummy drink, all you need is: Hawaiian Punch Lemon Lime Splash, Sprite and vanilla ice cream! Fill your glass with 3 parts punch, 1 part Sprite and a scoop of ice cream. To make the drink even extra special,cover the glass rim with green sugar crystals.

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Day 9: Rainbow Nails

I'm really, really, really disappointed in the way this manicure turned out. In real it actually looked a bit better than this, because the orange looks a lot less red in real life. It's super messy and I blame all of that on the striping tape... When I later added it between the colors it just didn't stick on my nail at all!

Ever since I was little I've been loving bright colors and whenever I was drawing rainbows (did that a lot when I was little) I always did pink, orange, yellow, green and blue. Sometimes purple and red as well :)

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Jupp Heynckes, the boss of Bayern Munich is convinced that in the future Colombian star James Rodriguez will play an important role for the German club.

"He is improving step by step and is going to be more and more important for us," the 72-year-old Heynckes commented.

Heynckes said that the 26-year-old James turns up for training with a broad smile on his face.

Things have significantly changed when it comes to the former Real Madrid ace and his value for the Bavarian side. Only a few weeks ago James' future in Munich seemed uncertain as the Colombian was regarded to be a leftover from former coach Carlo Ancelotti, struggling to find the right place in the Bavarian squad.

How is it that James developed to be one of the key performers for the 2013 treble winner?

First of all, Heynckes invented a new job profile for the former Real Madrid striker. In Heynckes' 4-3-3 system, James changed from the flanks to the midfield's centre. "He plays a position he never played before. In Madrid he was either operating along the left or the right wing," the 1974 World Cup winner explained.

Since Heynckes took over in the beginning of October 2017, James is one of the team's two performers just above the back row supplying passes to the front row.

"He is feeling extremely comfortable with that," Heynckes emphasised. According to Heynckes James is "far from a (Arjen) Robben or a (Franck) Ribery; he is no sprinter," but rather a team player with outstanding running abilities.

With an average of 11.8 kilometres per game, James is one of the Bundesliga's best performers. In beating Cologne (1-0) last Wednesday, James made his 12th appearance in Bayern's starting eleven this season.

"Some might be surprised, but James is a running machine with a great heart for the team's needs. He does not mind defensive work, is a positive factor, and addresses my demands of how a team should work," Heynckes stressed.

When it comes to James, Heynckes enhanced his reputation for being a skilled developer. "It helps that we speak the same language. No matter if we talk about tactics or the little things of daily life you normally can't discuss when you speak different languages. Together we made a significant step forward. Call it shared progress," Heynckes said.

Heynckes can rely on a significant Spanish history as he worked for Athletic Bilbao (1992 - 1994/2001 - 2003), CD Tenerife (1995 - 1997) and Real Madrid (1997 - 1998). In 1998, Heynckes won the Champions League with Real.

Bayern's coach said several times that it would take time for foreign players to adjust to a new league and a new country. The manager also said, "If you come from abroad, especially from South America, many things affect your performance such as the weather, the food, the new team, a new style of football and many more things."

So far, the attacking midfielder James scored two goals and delivered four assists. He is in Germany on loan for 13 million euros ($15.3 million), but the Bavarian side can buy James in summer 2019 for 42 million euros ($49.5 million).

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Flexibility--no operating system has more! Directories may have simple, quick (for-the-programmer who hasn't yet found menus, or a mix there of, to be efficient) command-line completion capability (command- vs menu-driven). On the other hand, menus may be set-up to manage complex functions used too infrequently to justify the mental overhead required to remember what's required...DISCAT uses such menus. Why would you want to remember little-used, multitude of commands with their trailing parameter possibilities? But if you do, ZCPR3 lets you use your recall (organic memory) ability; and if you forget, a menu can be there to serve. A complex three-menu skeleton to show some possibilities (command-line VMENU entry is VMENU <*.typ> ): -x # ^A+++^B Word Processing Display ^A+++^B Current Directory: $D$U 1 - ^AEdit Current File using WordStar^B C - ^ACopy Current File to BACKUP^B 2 - ^AType (Page) Current File^B G - ^AGoto System Utility Menu^B 3 - ^ACopy File(s) to Another Directory^B Z - ^AEnter ZCPR3 Command Line^B # 1ws $Pf 2page $Pf 3mcopy "Destination DIR? "="Source DIR:afn? " cmcopy $Pf g:3 z!"ZCPR3:Command>" # (put display text for menu #2 here and.. # ..put commands for menu #2 here) # ^A+++^B System Utility Menu ^A+++^B Current Directory: $D$U C - ^ARun DISCAT Catalog System^B D - ^ADisplay Selected Directory Files^B Z - ^ARun ZCPR3 Command(s)^B # ccd cat: d!xdir "Enter DIR:AFN and trailing options (U for all users): " z!"ZCPR3:Command>" ## Menu displays have an automatically generated command line allowing the user to go from menu to menu, forward and backward, and to jump to first menu. Goto's may be added to menu lines to custom-jump to menus. MCOPY automatically copies files to directory BACKUP if a destination DIR is not declared. Going to the CAT directory loads ST which runs MENU and its associated MNU file. $Pf expands to full filename cursor arrow points to, the Current File. Using n after the P would evaluate to just the file name, with file type left off. The latter is useful during ASM or MAC and LOAD/MLOAD operations. Options are different between VMENU and MENU: only "x" (permission to exit) is available with VMENU, but "cdpx" (command line expansion, display menu, and page screen) with MENU. The usage intended for each program established options available. A simple but powerful menu example: Richard Conn uses an interesting menu for spreadsheet and database management. In Rick's environment, DBASE.COM and its overlays are in A9:, with all *.CMD files (these are dBASE files and not VFILER CMD's) and data files in B9:. Each dBASE II invocation logs into A: so that dBASE runs from a directory which contains its overlays. The indicated command file does is set the default disk to B: which logs dBASE II into B: for command file and data file processing. The menu-driven process continues until a Quit (which drops Rick into dBASE) or an Exit (which drops him out of dBASE and back to ZCPR3). Upon leaving dBASE, command "B:" is executed, putting him back into B9:, and the menu then resumes. His complete DBMENU.MNU file: -dpx # *** Access to dBASE II and MultiPlan (MP) **** dBASE II D -- Invoke dBASE II and Set Options dBASE II Applications to Run 1 -- Check Book 6 -- Labels 2 -- Income Tracking 7 -- Software Inventory 3 -- Business Expense Tracking 8 -- Hardware Inventory 4 -- Time Cards 9 -- Itemized Inventory 5 -- Name and Address 0 -- MultiPlan Editor M -- Invoke MultiPlan E -- Invoke Editor on File Miscellaneous Functions B -- Run Microsoft BASIC X -- Directory Display T -- Time and Date Z -- Enter Any ZCPR3 Command # da:;dbase DPSETUP;b: 1A:;dbase B:cb;B: 2A:;dbase B:it;B: 3A:;dbase B:be;B: 4A:;dbase B:tc;B: 5A:;dbase B:nad;B: 6A:;dbase B:labels;B: 7A:;dbase B:sw;B: 8A:;dbase B:hw;B: 9A:;dbase B:itm;B: ma:;mp MPSETUP.MP;b: ewm "Name of File to Edit? becho use command 'SYSTEM' to exit;mbasic t!time x!xd z!"Command Line? ## -------------- DBMENU file is for use with MENU and not VMENU (VMENU allows up to 16 display text lines versus MENU's 22, here Rick has 19). Notice the 'SYSTEM' he reminder uses. Highlight display text using ^A and ^B to start and end highlighting, respectively. When designing screen layout, try to achieve text separation, more than provided by the characters alone. For example, highlight headers or highlight functions but never both. Achieve distinctiveness! Remember, study the capabilities of the system and you are set free--free to do exactly what you wish to do! Good News: Zilog Z800 microprocessor details released indicate one super chip...25 mHz clock rate, 8-bit bus, 4-DMA channels, CTC's, a UART, math co- processor for number crunching, instruction set downward compatible with Z80 and 8080, etc. Write to Zilog, Inc. (1315 Dell Avenue, Campbell, CA 95008) expressing your interest in 8-bit microprocessor advancement. Direct letters to Edgar A. Sack, new president of Zilog; Jerry Higgins, Systems Division; Tom Popek, Components Division; William Walker, Finance; Harry W. 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