People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.