Jesus did not come to be right. He came to make disciples.
A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.
Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.
A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
Rebellion never goes without consequences.
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
As a pastor, I’ve spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.
Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.
We don’t drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?
You won’t take risk without courage.
No one ever has the resources they need.
Every story of change there is always someone who didn’t have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.
I’ve talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don’t really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don’t need a solution. They need a new direction.
As you give to fund God’s needs, are you forced to trust Him to provide for yours? That’s what a growing faith is about. And over the long haul, it’s not enough just to commit to a percentage. Growth means reviewing your giving goals and occasionally increasing the percentage you give.
We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.
Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.
Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.
Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.