At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have a secret. They are forced to expend time and energy to ensure that no one finds them out. They know they are not completely trustworthy. Often they assume no one else is either. Guilty leaders have a difficult time trusting. Consequently, guilty leaders have a difficult time building teams.

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

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

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

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

Your response to opportunities, adversities and calling, determine the type of leader you become.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act and speak up when everyone else is silent....are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the "thing" he has placed in their hearts to do. If God bas birthed a vision in you, it is only a matter of time until you will come upon the precipice of sacrifice.

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.

Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

If you capture someone's heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well.

Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.

Jesus did not come to be right. He came to make disciples.

If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.

I can't make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.

Serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which he didn't see eye to eye. If a bakery doesn't want to sell its products to a gay couple, it's their business. Literally. But leave Jesus out of it.