“The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.”

Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.

When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.

God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.

Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.

Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.

Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

I’m not letting any 17 year old beat me tonight

I started making my own beats because I just couldn’t afford to pay for the other ones.

It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.

We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.

I’m not so much into the beats. I’m more into the spiritual side of the music.

Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.