Mike Krzyzewski [pronounced “shuh- shef-skee”] was coach of the national champion Duke Blue Devils basketball team. He is known as being meticulous in his pursuit of basketball success. In his book titled, Leading with the Heart, he attributes much of his success to his mother. He writes, “You want to know who my hero is? My hero is my mother. Everything she did was something that she put her own trademark on. Whatever it was, something as simple as making a batch of chocolate chip cookies. When we were a little poorer, she put three chips in every cookie. When we got a little more money, it’d be four chips. But if you got a chocolate chip cookie that had only two chips, two chocolate chips in it, you knew it wasn’t my mother’s, and from that simple lesson I’ve taken the principle that everything we do has our own personal signature on it, so we want to do it the best we possibly can.”

That’s a pretty good philosophy. Put your personal stamp on everything you do. In every worthwhile thing you do, give your very best.

St. Paul put his personal signature on the New Testament and upon the burgeoning young church of his day. And he did it like Coach Krzyzewski’s mother. He gave his very best. He held nothing back.