Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting opportunities happen between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 PM Monday through Sunday. In these closing hours of the day we have a unique opportunity to plant the seeds of what could be and what should be. Take every opportunity you get.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.

Strange as it may sound, it is more difficult to maintain a faith walk when we begin to see our dreams come true. When hopes become realities it is easy to shift our faith onto the thing we have dreamed of and off of the One who was the source of our provision.