Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.
God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan
Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.
Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake.
A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.
Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
Leadership is not for the faint of heart
Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.
When you get to the end will God say, "Well done," or, "What was up with that?"
Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
Obeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you have never been challenged, and invite levels of sacrifice you never dreamed you could make. This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we'd be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today - not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
You don't have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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