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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.

Dallas Willard

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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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
I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
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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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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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
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
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Answer Believe Right True
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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“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
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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