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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

Dallas Willard

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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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
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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