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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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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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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