“If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.”

How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.

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!

You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.

Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .

A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.

There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.

If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

It’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.

I’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.