Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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