You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

Nice! There's no fun in nice. I'll be myself and you'll all love me for it.

Forgiveness doesn't mean what happened wasn't wrong or didn't matter. If it wasn't wrong or didn't hurt, there wouldn't be anything to forgive.

Outwardly I was all confidence and openness

Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?

My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

Sorry, I'm not much of a cook.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.

The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.