You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.
The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.
The secret to concentration is elimination.
That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.