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What percentage of your church would you like to mobilize for missions – 10, 20, 40 percent? Try Jesus' goal for your church – 100 percent! Sound unrealistic? According to Saddleback Church's Skip Lanfried, the engine that could drive that level of mobilization may already be a part of your church. [more]

Around 30 percent of employed adults give back vacation time each year – because they don't use it. On average employees give back three days a year. - Source: Expedia.com

More than 415 million hours of vacation time go unused each year by American workers. Assuming a 40-hour work week, that's 1.6 million years of unused vacation time. - Chicago Tribune, July 6, 2004

"God doesn't make mistakes. He got the Bible right the first time. Nothing was left out. Nothing was forgotten. Our extra fences, hoops, and traditions not only aren't needed, they're harmful. And they certainly don't deliver on their promises. Rather than producing God-pleasing spirituality, they're more likely to produce pride, arrogance, and self-sufficiency. Rather than producing extra protection against sin, they increase the odds that one day we'll ignore his clear warnings through the mistaken assumption that they're no more valid than the empty threats posted on our man-made fences." - Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God (Multnomah, 2007)

"Jesus loved the world that God had made – and especially he loved its living creatures. He did not live like someone with one foot in the spirit world. He loved people of all kinds, and he went to all kinds of parties. People who believe in resurrection are like that – they love God's creation and relish life in the body." - Tim Stafford, Surprised by Jesus (InterVarsity, 2006)

"Personally, I am convinced that no body of men or women could persistently and successfully have preached in Jerusalem a doctrine involving a vacancy of that tomb [of Christ], without the grave itself being physically vacant. The facts were too recent; the tomb too close to the seething center of oriental life. Not all the make-believe in the world could have purchased the utter silence of antiquity or given to the records their impressive unanimity. Only the truth itself, in all of its unavoidable simplicity, could have achieved that." - Frank Morison, Who Moved the Stone? (Zondervan, 1971)