Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional life.

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.

Vision is capturing God's assignment

Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially.

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.

The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

The basic human craving is for meaning.

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

I feel responsible for Johnny Ray's success. See many years ago I asked him to be on my show and he asked for a lot of money and I cried. And he stole that from me.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.