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Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.
Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.
One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
Sometimes it is the destinations out of reach that create the circumstances God uses to remind that we are never out of his reach.
If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.
There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.
There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.
If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.
Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.
Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.
Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.
Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside
Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.
If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.
Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.
The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.
I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.
If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.
The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn't love a lot.
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.
Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.
Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.
People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.
We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.
Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.
If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.
Christians are viewed as being "judgmental, homophobic, moralists" who think they are the only ones going to heaven and who "secretly relish the fact that everyone else is going to hell.
I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.
My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.
I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.
Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.
In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.
If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.