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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Anand Thakur
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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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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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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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