Keep eternity before the children.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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