Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

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

Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.