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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

Francis Chan

Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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Freedom Power Thinking Yourself
God never breaks His promises.
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Break God Himself Promise
The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
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God Human Love Mistake Myself Need Perfection
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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Attention Close God Growth Ourselves Pursuit
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God
Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
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Education Focus Follow Love People Student Teaching
He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a ‘Christian’ without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
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Call Devotion Follow Person Thinking Weird
But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.
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Afraid Call Comfortable God Himself Situation Trouble Trust
Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
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Consequence People Pin Save Warm
Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.
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Big Enough God Live Ourselves Quite Trust Worry
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
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Identity Lost Ourselves Scripture World
Following Christ isn’t something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
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Display God Heart Ourselves Side
The disciples obey because that’s what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
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Death Deep Instruction Obedience People Rise
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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Activity Care Faith God Hero Religious
Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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Difference God Love Wealth
We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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Important Love Value Worth

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

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