“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.”

If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.

This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.

The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.

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.

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.

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That’s one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.

I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.

He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.

What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.

So, it’s cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.