Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.

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.

I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

We want time in with our kids not time out.

My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

You can't lead without taking risk.