A Case For Serving

Alfred Nobel left most of his fortune in a trust. Since 1901 the Nobel Foundation has been awarding annual prizes to those individuals who have marked our globe with an exceptional humanitarian effort.

Nobel was born into a family of inventors and early entrepreneurs. His family had been manufacturing nitroglycerin when an explosion in 1864 killed five people, including Alfred’s younger brother, Emil. Searching for a safer way to handle nitroglycerin, Nobel worked tirelessly until he invented a way to pack the explosives into another material, which greatly reduced its instability. In 1867, thirty-four-year-old Alfred Nobel patented and introduced dynamite to the world. Of his 355 patents, dynamite would be his most famous and by far his m

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Each individual must undergo a Copernican reordering to become a lifetime servant. Every year since 1901, exceptional service towards humankind has been recognized and awarded.

Until we meet Jesus… the one who cast aside what was good for Him and acted upon what was good for us. ” The sketch that illustrated the lead article was a large, ever-expanding balloon head, loosely tied to a tiny man’s shirt collar. Whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave. We must redraw the universe around others, not ourselves. Prior to 1543, even the most brilliant minds had the universe framed around the wrong center point.

Well, serving is the exact opposite. It is a quality that God emphasizes and elevates as a universal language for all who have passed beneath the cross of Christ.

A national magazine front cover caught my eye the other day.

These are but a selected few representing the Nobel Peace Prize. Going against every shred of science, history, and experience, Copernicus placed not the Earth but the sun at the center of the universe.

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