We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

When it seems like that's all there is, remember all you have in Him.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.