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"The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that’s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it."

— John C. Maxwell, via the99percent.com

If you’re a man, you need to watch this video.

Darren Patrick’s new book, Church Planter, releases today on Amazon. I’ve heard about it for the past several months, and am very excited to dive into it. Here’s what the Resurgence had to say about Darren and his new book…

Darrin Patrick, vice president of the Acts 29 Network and a veteran church planter himself (the Journey in St Louis) is one of the most qualified men on the planet to write this book. It is written for Church Planters, but will challenge any man to follow Christ with everything he’s go.

This book is a call for God’s men to rise to their calling to be the men God’s called them to be, with the Word God has called them to preach, on the mission God has called them to.

Buy the book Church Planter: The Man, The Message, The Mission on Amazon.

"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement, and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."

— Theodore Roosevelt (via Perry Noble)