Oswald Chambers: The Conditions of Discipleship

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also . . . . And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me . . . . So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot...

Henry Blackaby: Seeing the Multitudes

And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them. (Matthew 5:1-2) Christ sees people far differently than we do. Throughout the Gospels we see a pattern in the way Jesus...

Rick Warren: Make your vision clear and specific

Good, godly leaders know where God wants to take their ministries. Leadership starts with a vision. Do you have one? I talk to pastors all the time who don’t really know what God wants them to do in their ministries. They’re just drifting. They don’t know what God...