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.

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

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.