The Journey

I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself.  ~ Unknown

Make it your goal to be friendly with everyone, but also make it your goal to choose who “will” and who “won’t” influence your life! ~ Kevin Gerald

There is no burden on earth heavier than potential unfulfilled.

“I’ve always wanted to pastor a church that people love so much that when they miss church they actually miss church.” ~ Mark Batterson

Tonight, I have been thinking about excellence in relationships to church systems.  The longer I pastor the more convinced that I become that the road to excellence is always under construction.  Almost every time a church is not growing it be traced back to a systems failure.  There are several systems under review at Pentecostals [...]

Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures. ~ J.C. Penney, Retailer

Tags: Goals, Vision

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen. ~ Desiderius Erasmus

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito. ~ Betty Reese

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and [...]

Tags: Gratitude

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.  ~ Napoleon Hill

Tags: Plan