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.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

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

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.