God created each of us as a unique person. This means more than having a unique set of fingerprints. He created each of us with a complex synthesis of interests, expertise, personalities, talents, gifts, values, callings, passions and priorities. He did this with divine intentionality. He did this for the fulfillment of His perfect grand plan, not by mere happenstance or rolling genetic dice. Our Creator is heavily invested in His plan for each of us, and He does not leave us alone to figure it out.
Filed under: Angela Owen, Blog Entry, Mark Modjeska, Truventure on Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
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When I fully rest in Christ’s provision, fully surrender to His ownership, and fully commit to differentiating between truth and lies, I am positioning myself for intimacy with the Lover of my soul. This most intimate of relationships works as long as I am candid with the One who knows everything anyway. By His very nature, God is personal and He communicates personally. “Mind and Spirit” explores how to engage in two-way communication with the Master of the Universe.
Filed under: Angela Owen, Blog Entry, Mark Modjeska, Truventure on Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
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As we pursue a strategically aligned life with our Creator, we embrace His grace and submit to His lordship—nevertheless, we get tripped up because we live in a war zone. Our lives are the prized battleground between epic combatants—God, the Author of Truth, and Satan, the father of lies. Consequently, our ability to discern both truth and lies is an essential Prerequisite Principle of our Truventure.
Filed under: Angela Owen, Blog Entry, Mark Modjeska, Truventure on Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
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In my pursuit of a strategically aligned life with my Creator, I want to see lordship as He sees it before I spend any time on strategy. I want to be crystal clear on my position relative to God, because that affects everything I strategize and how it is implemented. As a strategist, I find one jugular point about lordship particularly helpful to adjust my paradigm to God’s perspective: this is not my life. He is the Potter; I am the clay.
Filed under: Angela Owen, Blog Entry, Mark Modjeska, Truventure on Thursday, February 15th, 2018
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Physical Chemistry was my most difficult undergraduate course, but I made it nearly impossible by skipping one of the prerequisite courses, third-year calculus. As a result, the meaning of prerequisite left an indelible impression on me. Prerequisite Principles are the lens we need to accurately understand and apply Truventure—to accurately understand how to think about each topic and how to tractively apply each lifestyle.
Filed under: Angela Owen, Blog Entry, Mark Modjeska, Truventure on Thursday, February 1st, 2018
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It’s been a while since I sat at my desk to write. In fact, apart from my private journaling or composing email messages, I’ve not strung coherent thoughts together in writing since my father passed earlier this year. Each time I’ve entertained the idea of writing again, an impasse has loomed before me like a smeared ink cloud that hides my words.
Filed under: Angela Owen, Blog Entry, People Success on Saturday, September 17th, 2016
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I type these words from my makeshift office in the living room of my childhood home. My father is in his 11th year of battling Parkinson’s Disease, and my mother had hip replacement surgery last week. I have temporarily moved back into their home to support them as my mom heals from her surgery and
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Filed under: Angela Owen, Blog Entry on Saturday, April 11th, 2015
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“Angela, if you are ever going to succeed in this organization, you need to learn to raise your voice and throw a chair around every now and then. People need to know you mean business!” As appalling as it to think that someone would ever offer advice that chair throwing is required for effective
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Filed under: Angela Owen, Blog Entry, People Success on Monday, March 9th, 2015
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Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a word spoken in right circumstances. – Proverbs 25:11 Words are powerful…so powerful, in fact, that when spoken they actually carry either life or death. The words of a leader can lift a person up or take a person down; propel a project forward or drive
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Filed under: Angela Owen, Blog Entry, Leadership, People Success on Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
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The nemesis of my sophomore year of college was a class called Circuits 101. Known as a “weeder class”, one designed to instill frustration and confusion in aspiring engineering students, the possibilities of passing or failing were extreme. Each test consisted of only two questions, yielding only 3 possible test scores: 0, 50, or 100. I studied.
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Filed under: Angela Owen, Blog Entry, People Success on Friday, January 9th, 2015
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