Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.