To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

Sometimes it is the destinations out of reach that create the circumstances God uses to remind that we are never out of his reach.

If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.