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Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

Francis Chan

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.
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Faith God Himself Hope Promise True
Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Call Expectation Follow God Himself People Radical
We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That’s Weird.
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Live Modern Religious Time Weird
Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
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Alone Communication Himself Intimacy
We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
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End Goal Prayer Thinking
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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Call Comfortable God Himself Trust
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
The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It’s about God who wants to give to you.
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God Heaven Message Yourself
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
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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Command Consumption Family Important Life Problem Rejoice
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
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
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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Discipline Night Ourselves
Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.
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Commitment Display Humble Journey Love Marriage Platform Pride
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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Action Fruit Meaning World
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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Desperate God Himself Time

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

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