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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

Dallas Willard

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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“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
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
Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Forgiveness Grace Life
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Angry Ego Embrace Person Wound
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 hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
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
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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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Attitude Learning Live Mindset Open Right
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Abundance Obedience One Liner
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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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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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
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

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

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