Occupation: Pastor Birth: May 16, 1958
Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard..
T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you.".
Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it.
For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the "thing" he has pla….
Generosity won't happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every mont….
The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it..
People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up..
Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led..
The more successful you are the less accessible you will become..
Courage is essential to leadership..
The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism..
Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share….
What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be..
My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from t….
Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imagina….
Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another..
The greatest motivator of change is a crystal-clear vision of what the future should look like..
Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upo….
Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have..
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem..
While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring gene….