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

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.

The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.

Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!