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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

Dallas Willard

As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Definition Human Love Thinking
The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Anand Thakur
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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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Anand Thakur
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
Keep eternity before the children.
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Anand Thakur
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Anand Thakur
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
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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Anand Thakur
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
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
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves

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