God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Anand Thakur
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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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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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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