Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm a John 3:16 Christian, I believe God so loved the world, I do believe that, and I believe that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish. But I also believe, you know, predestination from the foundation of the Earth. So to me, I'm able to hold tensions in my mind rather than having to explain them. To me, I don't fit in a real good box and I believe them both.

Most people fail to realize that money is both a test and trust from God.

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

Leaders don't do what they WANT to do;they do whatever is necessary.

To me, thinking with the mind of Christ means to be thinking in light of eternity, which is what Colossians is all about; and that our lives are hid with Christ in God and that eternity, we're going to spend far more time on the other side of death than this side.