Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.

Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.

Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers.

Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader’s life.

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.

Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.

God is so much bigger than our ‘what ifs’ that he can turn them into ‘why nots

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

Hearing God’s voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

The greatest self is self confident.

Hope is a song in a weary throat.

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

We're all in this together if we're in it at all.

The ultimate goal of physicists is to arrive at an equation that explains everything and could fit on a t-shirt. That may happen but the t-shirt would have to be 10-dimensional.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.