Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.

If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we've got to do things that no one else is doing.

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.