The Journey

“Defend the church? I’d rather defend a lion. The church needs no defense!”  ~ Spurgeon

We had a great time visiting with our friends; Brian, Jana and Bryn Allard.  We talked, we laughed, we ate P.F. Changs and drank Starbucks.  It is awesome spending time with friends…and since I enjoy quotes so much, here is one on “Friends.”  O God, why can’t at least one of my friends have all [...]

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have  ~ Maya Angelou

No affliction would trouble a child of God, if he knew God’s reasons for sending it  ~ James Henry Morgan

Have you ever been running late only to happen up on something that made you thankful you were?  This morning while on our way to my wife’s job we were running a couple of minutes late and came up behind a major traffic situation.  People were getting out of their vehicles and there was a [...]

I heard someone make the statement awhile back that “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”  How many times have great ideas never been acted upon simply because the person with the idea was afraid of the risk.  Many years ago, I was told that “you [...]

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our lives are made. Destiny is made known silently ~ Agnes de Mille

In a blog post, Perry Noble lists a few things that John Maxwell told him in a meeting.

Very few attacks are worth fighting over
If you start answering every critic–all you’ll get is more critics
If you explain yourself then all you’ll do is explain yourself
The more successful you are the more criticism you will attract
NOTHING frustrates [...]

Nothing is easier than fault-finding. No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character are required to set up in the grumbling business  ~ Robert West

Someone once observed that “Some people find fault as if it were buried treasure.”