“It [hard work] will be successful when passion and purpose meet discipline.”- Tom Eggebrecht “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”- Oscar Wilde Tom Eggebrecht notes in Chapter 6 (“Be Yourself”) of Fully and Creatively Alive that you attract others to be part of your dream through your unique personality, gifts, talents, and desires. In […]
“When we eradicate clutter from our lives, we create a vacuum that aches to be filled.”- Bill Hybels “Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter. Fear God and keep his commandments, for that is the duty of all mankind.”- Ecclesiastes 12:13 Bill Hybels concludes Chapter 10 of Simplify by discussing […]
“He [Jesus] went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.”- Luke 4:16 “But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ “- Mathew 5:37 (NKJV) In Chapter 2 of Simplify Bill Hybels discusses several ways connecting with God […]
The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”- John 4:49-50 As Mark Batterson continues Chapter 7 of The Grave Robber, he cites the carefully crafted benediction of then Senate Chaplain Dr. Richard Halverson. Dr. Halverson believed his most important pastoral function was pronouncing this benediction, […]