Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

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

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act and speak up when everyone else is silent....are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

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.