The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
FRANCIS CHANMarriage 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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Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.
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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.
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A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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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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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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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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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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We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
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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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My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.
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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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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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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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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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Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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True faith manifests itself through our actions.
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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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Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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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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