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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Hungry Morning People Rise
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
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
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
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
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
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
$Dallas Willard Quote - Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.$

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Anand Thakur
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
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
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
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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