If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

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

The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.

Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

If you're living a yielded life, and if you have the preaching and teaching gift, and you're yielding that to God on a continual basis, that's one of the signs that you're in the right place doing the right thing for the right reasons. If you're doing something in the kingdom, and you rarely feel that, that's a red flag. Something needs to be looked at. Are you using the right gift? Are you using it in the right way? For the right reasons? At the right time? In the right context? If I didn't feel it consistently, that would be quite troubling to me.