The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
Intercession remains the unrivaled master in fulfilling the Great Commission.
Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation
God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family life and were so protective of "quality time" that the children never saw in their parents the kind of consuming love that made their parent's faith attractive to them. Some have lost their children, note because they weren't at their soccer games or didn't take family vacations, but because they never transmitted a loyalty to Jesus that went deep enough to interrupt personal preferences.
God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.
The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that city.
I believe that we are the generation that will rise and fulfill the Great Commission. But if we don't; some generation will. God has decreed it!
When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.
The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.
Libya is still a mess right now.
It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.