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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

Dallas Willard

When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Angry Ego Embrace Person Wound
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Church Decision Fact God Problem
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
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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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking

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