Pastor Steven Furtick

Too Much Invested

Holly reminded me the other night: “Whatever you do, you simply cannot have a moral failure. There’s too much at stake, too many people are counting on you, and God has given you too many wise voices speaking into your life for you to blow it.” (This may not be an exact ...

Don’t Back Down

God has been speaking to me a lot about the economy recently. The sense of what He’s been impressing on my heart is: don’t back down. Every time I’ve turned on cable news in the last 3 weeks I’ve been tempted to scale down and back away from some of our God-sized, ...

Trading Impressive for Impactful

I’m very grateful for the opportunities God has been giving me in recent months to speak to church leaders at different conferences across the country. As I’ve been preparing for these different events, I’ve noticed a shift in my motivation. I’m worrying less about impressing people with my messages, and obsessing more ...

Appreciation

A thousand thanks to every single Elevator who took time to write a card or give a gift to honor me for Pastor’s Appreciation Month last night. Holly and I were honored and humbled in a colossal way. I read letters until my eyes burned severely last night, and haven’t even ...

Hurry Up and Wait

Guest Blog: Chunks Corbett, Executive Pastor Whether you blame it on the gas crunch or maybe the economy, the bottom line is the airport just ain’t what it used to be. A few of our lead team are out in Oklahoma City with Pastor hanging with the guys at LifeChurch.tv, and on ...

Perspective on progress

I’ve shared before that I see a professional counselor weekly to help me navigate all the pressures of leading our church and my family in the healthiest way possible. Someone asked me the other day: What’s the most helpful thing your counselor has helped you process through? I didn’t have an immediate answer, ...

Good enough isn’t good enough for me

I can’t stand to do something that’s just good enough. It torments me when I feel like I pass with a C+. Like the other day, in a production meeting, we were looking over the coming Sunday’s service. It was a good service. Good enough. It wasn’t great, though. And we knew it. ...