Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

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.

If you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.