Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

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.

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.