People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

A preacher shouldn’t preach just to make you feel good. Then it’s about the money not about the teach. He should preach the truth because the truth shall set you free.

Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can’t do everything, don’t want to do...

Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS.

You’re going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do...

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.

In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.

This ain’t my first rodeo!”.~R. Alan Woods [1999]

Your circumstances do NOT define you. Expect a GRAND finale.

Impossible situations TEST you and PROVE Him

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

Put this in your ‘pastoral’ pipe and smoke it!!!”~R. Alan Woods [2012]

A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark”.

God, I don’t really understand You but I know I can hug YOU..

God is the message owner; prophets and pastors are messengers. It’s happens on no account when the messenger becomes greater than the message owner! Let’s us avoid these “human worships”, confining our source of hope...

We don’t forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!

I miss the honor of serving as a parish pastor. There is nothing quite like it. The most challenging aspect of the job is that you just can’t please everybody all the time, no matter...

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort…seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

Tell people HOW MUCH I love them. Feed my sheep.Pour out my love on them.

Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.

Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through...

Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.

What’s happening outside church walls is happening inside church walls. It is all part of the human experience. Ignorance and lack of education about sex, sexual orientation, gender identities, and human sexuality in general have...

God makes his gospel attractive through people…that is the point of the gospel; it is trans-formative in nature.

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn’t know about yourself.

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.

We must admit that simply knowing the contents of the Bible is not a sure route to spiritual growth. There is an aweful assumption in evangelical churches that if we can just get the Word...

Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.

There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like...

The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE…and still recover…as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE.

I rather have a pastor that committed every horrible sin and repented, than a pastor that has no place of reference to preach redemption to a packed chapel full of sinners.

I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.

But the fact is that the gospel demands everything of all of us. If someone thinks the gospel has slotted into their life quite easily, without causing any major adjustments to their lifestyle or aspirations,...

There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.

When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.

The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very...

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.

I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.

Living life ONCE is enough…if you live life RIGHT.