Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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