A ten-week devotional that helps believers free themselves from materialism, status, fear, and other enslaving bondages.
I'm a Christian author and motivational speaker on a mission to empower people to maximize their lives for maximum Kingdom impact.
I'm an obsessive compulsive. My obsession? The Kingdom. It's all about advancing the Kingdom. My consuming passion is motivating the church to get up out of the stinkin' pews and into the world. Honestly, I don't even care what you do. Just leave the building, people! Leave the building!
Just because He can, God has enabled me to write a bunch of bestselling Christian books that have sold almost a million copies on all seven continents. Yep, even made it to Antarctica. With titles like This Isn't the Life I Signed Up For, you can understand why I'm more popular with actual hurting people than the big-shots who run the show in Christiandom.
People ask how I landed in ministry. Here's how it went down. The angels were having a bad week and God knew they needed a good laugh. He spotted me living in a trailer off the New Jersey Turnpike and smiled from ear-to-ear. "Hey, everybody, watch this. I'm going to give this woman a worldwide ministry!" Rumor has it the angels laughed for a month. I'm on the planet for one reason: to demonstrate that God has absolutely no standards. He'll take anybody in. If you are willing to turn your life over to God, no matter what a mess you've made, he will astound a watching world with what he can do.
When people leave my conferences, I don't want them to say, "Wow, what a remarkable woman. I could never be like her." I want them to say, "If I had known the standards for being used in the Kingdom were that low, I would have signed up years ago."
I've done hundreds of radio and TV shows. I've spoken at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virgina twice. I've done three conferences on women's entrepreneurship for Senator John McCain (neat guy, lovely wife, btw).I've shared the platform with lots of Christian celebrities, but what I really love is ministering to the homeless, alcoholics, drug addicts and battered women alongside the Salvation Army and urban ministries around the world. Or sharing the gospel on crowded street corners in South America. I absolutely love, love, love the Middle East and have a ministry called Pieces4Peace which reaches into the largest Muslim city in the world.
Even though I fried my brain on cocaine, apparently enough cells survived to enable me to maintain a 4.0 at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences and Wharton Business School. I hold a B.A. in English (with a very practical emphasis on 17th Century British literature) from Rutgers University.
