Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

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

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.

Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.

Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.

My style has evolved because I was one of the guys that would "geek chic" it every now and then. Now I'm just more into whatever works for me. I think that's just age.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.