Righteousness, Godliness

Righteousness is our relation to God, whereas godliness is our reflection of God.

Olford, Stephen, Anointed Expository Preaching, Broadman & Holman Publishers: Nashville, TN, p. 43.

KISS

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Peter Drucker

It Takes 100 Christians...

It takes 100 members of a congregation to win 1.67 people to Christ in a given year.

Greg Ogden (Transforming Discipleship, Location 325)

Motivation and Ability

If you try to motivate someone who is unable, the result is not change but depression.

Joseph Grenny

Bad Days

Get clear with yourself: If you are "on a mission," there will be bad days.

Tom Peters

Nuts

The mightiest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.

Source: unknown.

Blessed

What do you have that you did not receive? 1 Corinthians 4:7

When pride or self-satisfaction come knocking, remember.

Optimism

"The optimists are usually wrong and the pessimists are usually right. Yet, all the great changes in history were done by optimists."

Thomas Friedmann, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner [quote is not verbatim]

Fragile

"I envy those few people who truly understand that life is a fragile bargain, rescindable at any time by the other party, and live their lives accordingly."

Joseph Epstein

Doing My Best

If the 18 teams of the Bundesliga (top German soccer league) have an average of 25 players on roll, that's 450 pro's. Compared to the 6.3 million members of the Deutscher Fussball-Bund, that's 0.007%. Am I in the top 0.007% in my calling? Am I on my way there? Or do I want to spend my life playing Kreisklasse?

Balanced Lives

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

Stephen Covey

Change

When the winds of change are blowing, some people are building shelters, and others are building windmills.

Chinese Proverb

Leadership and Community

We have to strike the right balance between being in touch, and being in control. The irony is, the more in control we are, the more out of touch we become.

A. G. Lafley, CEO of Procter & Gamble

Efficiency and Importance

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter F. Drucker

Change

People are not afraid of change. They fear the unknown.

Dick Brown, chairman and CEO of EDS

Listening

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

Peter F. Drucker

Easter in a Nutshell

Dear Jesus,
Thank You!

Marquee of New Hope Church, Oklahoma City

Building to Last

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Peter F. Drucker

Action

If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.

Ecclesiastes 11:4 NLT

Leadership: Growth

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch