Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.

Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.