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.

I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.

People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

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

Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.