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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

Dallas Willard

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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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
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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Character Form God Production
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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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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Answer Believe Right True
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Choice God Life Myself Style
The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Large Personal Relation Social Transformation World
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
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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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
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 don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

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