Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.

Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past.

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.

Faith and optimism are contagious.

Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

The most important legacy you will ever leave is your vision planted in the minds of your disciples and a passion as strong as a storm in their hearts.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I think sometimes people forget how to be nice to people. I try not to let it get to me.

I'm also combining my love of outdoors with my desire to help others.

Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

The Creator has given me the strength to look forward in life, to embrace the beautiful and the positive. Now I truly walk in beauty.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.