Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.
It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God’s commands regarding sexual purity.
Leadership is stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable!
The more successful you are the less accessible you will become.
Leaders are made one response at a time.
If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.
The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.
If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they’ve lost they’re ability to recognize that they’re rich.
People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church – even if they don’t share your beliefs – as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.
In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
Actions don’t only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
Complexity is the enemy of clarity.