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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

Dallas Willard

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
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
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
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
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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Hard People Right World
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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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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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Abundance Obedience One Liner
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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
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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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

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