Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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