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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

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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
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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Anand Thakur
If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Character Form God Production
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Definition Human Love Thinking
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Anand Thakur
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
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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Anand Thakur
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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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Anand Thakur
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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