When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.

I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.

I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.