Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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