People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.

There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

Everybody can be somebody when somebody understands and believes in her.

I hold conferences, and the result of that was that the secular community also started picking up my stuff, and pretty soon they wanted more. So I realized I could not only minister to the Christian community, but I could also minister to the corporate community. So my books started crossing over, and then I began to intentionally have them cross over.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.