As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Anand Thakur
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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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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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 open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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