Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!

Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.

You'll never come second by putting God first.

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

Love is a very compelling argument.

Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.

Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.