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.

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

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.

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.