Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Anand Thakur
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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The church is in the hope business.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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