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.
DALLAS WILLARDIn 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 hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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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 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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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