CHAPTER 1: CALLED TO PASSION
1. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 17.
2. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC (New York: Harper and Row, 1973), 95.
3. Barney Calman, “Fibbing on Facebook Can Trick Your Memory: People Start Believing Their Own Social Media Exaggerations,” Daily Mail, December 27, 2014, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2888454/Youngsters-airbrushing-reality-social-media-make-lives-interesting-suffer-paranoia-sadness-shame-fail-live-online-image.html.
CHAPTER 2: CALLED TO ENGAGE
1. Immanuel Kant, “Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht,” Berlinische Monatsschrift, November 1784, S. 385–411.
2. LeBron James’s Facebook page, September 23, 2015, https://www.facebook.com/LeBron/videos/10153669500753944/.
3. Larry Page, “Where’s Google Going Next?” filmed March 19, 2014, TED video and transcript, 23:30, https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_page_where_s_google_going_next/transcript?language=en. (The relevant quote is at 22:00.)
4. Peter Taylor, “Nelson Mandela: Everyone Can Make an ‘Imprint’ on the World,” One (blog), July 21, 2009, http://www.one.org/international/blog/nelson-mandela-everyone-can-make-an-imprint-on-the-world/; “Mandela’s Birthday Message,” BBC, July 18, 2009, Adobe Flash video, 0:57, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8157470.stm. (The relevant quote is at 0:35.)
5. Hans Küng, On Being a Christian, repr. ed. (Garden City, NJ: Image Books, 1986), 231.
CHAPTER 3: CALLED TO FLOURISH
1. “Warren Buffett Invites Joey Prusak, Good Samaritan Dairy Queen Employee, to Shareholders Meeting,” HuffPost Good News, September 24, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/23/joey-prusak-warren-buffet-_n_3977043.html.
CHAPTER 4: CALLED TO WAIT
1. Tom Callahan, “The Greatest of Them All: Jackson and Jordan Might Be the Two Best Athletes in America. But Who’s Better?” Newsweek, December 4, 1989, 92.
2. Gary Mack and David Casstevens, Mind Gym: An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), 15–16.
3. R. Judson Carlberg, “Translating A. J. Gordon’s Global Vision into Globalization: A Look Ahead,” Stillpoint, Fall 2005, 15, http://www.gordon.edu/download/galleries/2005%20Fall%20Stillpoint1.pdf. Italics are the author’s emphasis.
4. Rick Weinberg, “53: Johnson Flunks Drug Test, Loses Gold Medal,” ESPN, July 17, 2004, http://espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/53.
CHAPTER 5: CALLED TO CHOOSE
1. Augustine, Confessions, 9.4.11.
2. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine (New York: Washington Square Press, 2007), 2.2.15–16. References are to act, scene, and line.
3. Steve Jobs, commencement address (transcript), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, June 14, 2005, http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
CHAPTER 6: CALLED TO COURAGE
1. “I’m Forrest . . . Forrest Gump,” Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis (1994; Los Angeles: Paramount Home Video, 2001), DVD.
2. J. K. Rowling, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination” (commencement speech, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 5, 2008), Harvard Gazette, http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/.
3. Ibid.
4. Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 (New York: Harper, 1910), 616.
5. Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows and Blessings into One Joyful Step, ed. Michael Ford (Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 2005), 202.
6. Richard Branson, The Virgin Way: Everything I Know about Leadership (New York: Portfolio, 2014).
7. “Elisha Otis,” The Elevator Museum (website), accessed April 18, 2016, http://www.theelevatormuseum.org/e/E-5.htm.
CHAPTER 7: CALLED TO FOCUS
1. James Delingpole, “When Lego Lost Its Head—and How This Toy Story Got Its Happy Ending,” Daily Mail, December 18, 2009, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1234465/When-Lego-lost-head—toy-story-got-happy-ending.html.
2. T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” Four Quartets (New York: Harcourt, 1943), 17.
3. Ryan Jaslow, “Internet Addiction Changes Brain Similar to Cocaine: Study,” CBS News, January 12, 2012, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/internet-addiction-changes-brain-similar-to-cocaine-study/.
4. Anthony Storr, Jung (New York: Rutledge, 1991), 102.
5. John Milton, Samson Agonistes in The Complete Poems of John Milton, Harvard Classics, vol. 4 (New York: P. F. Collier, 1909–14), lines 38–46; Bartleby.com, 2001, http://www.bartleby.com/4/602.html.
6. Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675, Simon Gratz collection, 9792, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, http://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/9285.
7. Hillsong Live, vocal performance of “Beautiful Exchange,” by Joel Houston, June 29, 2010, on A Beautiful Exchange, Hillsong, CD.
8. For more information, visit http://www.bibleinoneyear.org.
9. Sam Wells, “God Is With Us,” YouTube video, 25:29, from a speech delivered at Focus 2014, Camber Sands, Rye, Kent, August 6, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruhx6Gm2l9w.
10. Ian Sample, “Shocking But True: Students Prefer Jolt of Pain to Being Made to Sit and Think,” Guardian, July 3, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/03/electric-shock-preferable-to-thinking-says-study. The details of the study can be found in Timothy D. Wilson, David A. Reinhard, Erin C. Westgate, Daniel T. Gilbert, Nicole Ellerbeck, Cheryl Hahn, Casey L. Brown, and Adi Shaked, “Just Think: The Challenges of the Engaged Mind,” Science 345:6192 (July 4, 2014), 75–77.
11. Diarmaid MacCulloch, Silence—A Christian History (New York: Penguin, 2013).
CHAPTER 8: CALLED TO PERSEVERE
1. Andrew Bisharat, “Duo Completes First Free Climb of Yosemite’s Dawn Wall, Making History,” National Geographic, January 14, 2015, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/150114-climbing-yosemite-caldwell-jorgeson-capitan/.
2. Stav Ziv, “Yosemite Climbers Find Themselves on Top of the World,” Newsweek, January 19, 2015, http://www.newsweek.com/yosemite-climbers-find-themselves-top-world-300581.
3. Kevin Jorgeson, Instagram post, January 7, 2015, https://www.instagram.com/p/xkK2Z7pm0Y/.
4. Ziv, “Yosemite Climbers.”
5. Scot Murray, “The Joy of Six: Sir Alex Ferguson,” Guardian, November 4, 2011, http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/nov/04/joy-of-six-sir-alex-ferguson.
6. Tommy Caldwell, “Tommy Caldwell: What I’ve Learned,” Rock and Ice 217 (April 2014), http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/what-ive-learned-tommy-caldwell.
7. Hillsong Live, vocal performance of “Mighty to Save,” by Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan, March 5, 2006, on Mighty to Save, Hillsong Australia, CD.
CHAPTER 9: CALLED TO WORSHIP
1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834), in The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900, ed. A. T. Quiller Couch (Oxford, Clarendon, 1919), lines 283–86, 289–92; Bartleby.com, 1999, http://www.bartleby.com/101/549.html.
2. Karl Barth, “The Gift of Freedom: Foundation of Evangelical Ethics,” in The Humanity of God, trans. Thomas Wieser (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1960), 78–81.
CHAPTER 10: CALLED TO BREAK BORDERS
1. Hillsong United, vocal performance of “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail),” by Matt Crocker, Joel Houston, and Salomon Ligthelm, February 22, 2013, on Zion, Hillsong Sparrow, CD.
2. Ben Okri, Mental Fight: An Anti-Spell for the Twenty-first Century (London: Phoenix House, 1999), 9.
3. Larry Schwartz, “Beamon Made Sport’s Greatest Leap,” ESPN.com, accessed April 18, 2016, https://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014092.html.