It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.

So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.

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.

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. In fact, that's why it is unlike any other book. You may be an expert in a given field. If you read a book in that field two or three times you've got it. But that's never true of the Bible. Read it over and over again, and you'll see things that you've never seen before.

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

The secret to concentration is elimination.