No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous.

As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

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 the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Resources follow vision.

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.