Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

The ground we have in common with unbelievers is not the Bible, but our common needs, hurts, and interests as human beings. You cannot start with a text expecting the unchurched to be fascinated by it. You must first capture their attention, and then move them to the truth of God's Word. By starting with a topic that interests the unchurched and then showing what the Bible says about it, you can grab their attention, disarm prejudices, and create an interest in the Bible that wasn't there before.

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.