Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
DALLAS WILLARDHuman 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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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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