If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Anand Thakur
If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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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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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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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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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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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