Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake.

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

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

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!