My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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