Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARD
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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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 we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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 have to be brilliant.
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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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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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