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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Dallas Willard

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Hard People Right World
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Answer Believe Right True
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
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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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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