Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.
RICHARD J. FOSTERFour times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.
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You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.
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Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
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Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
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We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.
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Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.
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And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about “proper” praying, just talk to God.
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Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us.
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Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
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reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.
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Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.
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