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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.

Dallas Willard

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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
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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Act Believe True
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Conversation Engagement God Life People Practice Relationship Spiritual
Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
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
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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 key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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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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