What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.