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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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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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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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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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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 main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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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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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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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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