Never compare your ministry: for two reasons. First, you'll always find someone doing a better job that you and you'll get discouraged. Second, you'll always find someone that you're doing a better job than, and get full of pride. Either way, you'll be dead in the water.

A church should be judged not on its seating capacity, but on its sending capacity.

What we normally do in the structure of a message is that we do interpretation and then application of a point, then the next interpretation and the next appli…

A church is either structured for growth or control.

We never expected anything, actually. I think we still don't expect anything. We were proud of the album when we finished it, so whatever success it has we are…

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flatte…