Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
If we start to dumb down what has been made clear, where does that stop?
No one ever has the resources they need.
Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.
Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.
There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.
As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.
I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.
I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.