You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.

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

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!

Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; it's to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

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

Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.