The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

The cost for the recipient of God’s grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done.

Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.