Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
FRANCIS CHANCan you worship a God who isn’t obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
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Following Christ isn’t something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice.
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Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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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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The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.
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We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
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Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
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I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
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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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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they’re not obeying the things that He called them to do.
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