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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Angry Ego Embrace Person Wound
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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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
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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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
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Attitude Learning Live Mindset Open Right
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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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
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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

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