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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

Francis Chan

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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Activity Care Faith God Hero Religious
Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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Difference God Love Wealth
Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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God Himself Love Yourself
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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Discipline Night Ourselves
We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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Action Alive Ourselves
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
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Complete God Himself Leadership Understand Worship
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God
I don’t have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
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Expectation Myself Planning Success Worry
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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God Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Treasure
Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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God Himself Life Story
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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Call Comfortable God Himself Trust
The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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God Himself Man Stand Wisdom Word
He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a ‘Christian’ without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
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Call Devotion Follow Person Thinking Weird
I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
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Believe Compassionate Generosity Help Love Myself
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Desire Fight God Order Simplicity Yourself
A key to everything is surrender – to really come before the Lord and say, – I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay’ or ‘God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.
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Earth God Myself Surrender
Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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Better Planning Trust Yourself
We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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Important Love Value Worth
But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.
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Afraid Call Comfortable God Himself Situation Trouble Trust
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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Action Fruit Meaning World
We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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God Need Ourselves People Reputation
Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
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Change God Live Relationship Yourself
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
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Identity Lost Ourselves Scripture World
God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.
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God Invitation Life Ourselves
God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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Definition God Live Love Measurement Ourselves Straight
I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
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Better Fall God Life Myself Relationship Wonderful
God doesn’t want religious duty. He doesn’t want a distracted, half-hearted, ‘Fine, I’ll read a chapter, now are You happy?’ attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.
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Chapter Day God Himself Meditation Night Religious

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