Repentance is a softening of ones heart and a realigning of ones affections.

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.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

Work hard and don’t manipulate God

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you’re doing

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

You never know how a good quest is going to end.

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.