Posted on July 16, 2007 by coffeeshoptheologian
Here’s a good quote I picked up from SmartPastor.com:
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.” -Jack Nicklaus
Here’s a good source page: The Quotations Page
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Posted on April 10, 2007 by coffeeshoptheologian
The best we can do is our best… and sometimes that isn’t good enough.
And that’s frustrating.
And indicative that we are less in control of our lives than we’d like to be. There are countless untold factors that affect the directions of our lives. Countless. And untold.
And that, also, is frustrating. Because it’d be easy to [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2006 by coffeeshoptheologian
Just read a nice entry in Brian Jones’ blog about having a Sermon Induced Meltdown. He’s a regular contributor to the Christian Standard. Anyway, I can identify with, as he says, being sick of “writing sermons half asleep” and “not deeply reading the classics.” While I am not (yet) writing adult worship sermons weekly, I [...]
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