This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Anand Thakur
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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 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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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