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

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.

Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

Be who you are. But be the very best communicator you can possibly be. To do that you must be willing to sacrifice what's comfortable-what has become part of your style-for the sake of what is effective.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside

While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.