To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
DALLAS WILLARD
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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 don’t have to be brilliant.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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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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