When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

You can't lead without taking risk.

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems ... they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.

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