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.

If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither can you. Disconnected and cut off from the lifeblood of a local body, your spiritual life will wither and eventually cease to exist.

Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity.