“Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value + behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.”
-Mike Rowe (“Dirty Jobs” Host)
Don’t let anyone make you smaller than you are.
The church is not a building, we don’t go to church, you and I are the church.
Truth is Jesus Christ.
Hope is the proper response to the promises of God.
Failure is an event, not a person.
Christianity offers Grace where social justice offers self-righteousness! Not, we are good people, you are bad…
Following Jesus makes life better. You don’t even have to believe: A rational argument not a religious argument
Do you really like the person that you are alone with?
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes much easier.
Execution trumps talent. Culture trumps all.
Do we promote “Woe is me”or “What can be”.
Culture must be developed and sustained from the top down.
We only have today…
The older I get, the more the line between the secular and the spiritual becomes blurred.
God’s greatest source of joy is to be believed.
Socialism creates a paradise for parasites.
Do you believe that God is good, that he loves you, that he forgives you? Then, let him love you.
You can’t make God not love you, so don’t live as though you have likely lived in a way that has caused him to no longer love you.
If you give your children nothing, they will have nothing to give. If you give your children everything, they still will have nothing to give.
It takes incredible faith to not believe.
Hope is necessary for any culture.
Hope is desire and expectation (not just desire).
We are hope motivated people. There needs to be something more important than “me” in our culture and in our life.
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
-Abraham Lincoln
Culture is the most important. Values, what you stand for, what you won’t stand for, who you are, and most importantly, who you are becoming.
Energy flows towards great ideas.
We go at the speed of relationship. If there is no relationship, not much will happen.
Become masters of the art of living (the ordinary business of getting along in the world).
What do you want others to thank you for?
Break the huddle, run the play!
All employees are volunteers. They don’t have to work here.
Culture and history is about all you have.
Giving of yourself is the foundation of change.
God does not call us to do rather He calls us to be.
Every moment has the possibility of purpose and destiny.
I love thinking, even thinking about thinking. The mind is such a wonderful, underutilized asset
The deeper the pain, the fewer words are required.
Money is attracted to good ideas. Energy (time, people, & money) flows to great ideas. We need great ideas.
Everything moves at the speed of relationship. (Build relational credits whenever you can).
Worship happens when we seek to understand how God thinks.
“Always say please and thank you.”
– Mom
Science is repeatable and dependable.
Hope is desire plus expectation (not just desire). Hope generates energy.
“I don’t like that man. I really must get to know him better.”
-Abraham Lincoln
It is never too late to end well.
Sin is an attitude of indifference toward God.
Worship is seeking to understand how God thinks.
Become master of the art of living. (The ordinary business of getting along in the world).