To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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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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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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