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The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

Francis Chan

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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Addiction God Relationship Simplicity Team
The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
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Difficult Joy Life Season Teaching True
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
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Allow God Hard Joy Life Peace World Yourself
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Desire Fight God Order Simplicity Yourself
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
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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Consequence People Pin Save Warm
We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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Important Love Value Worth
Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Call Expectation Follow God Himself People Radical
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God
The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
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God Human Love Mistake Myself Need Perfection
God’s presence is all that matters.
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God Matter Presence
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
When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
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Feeling Love Manifestation Obligation Work
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
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
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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God Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Treasure
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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Failure Fear Greatness Life Success
Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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Fall Religious Scripture Study Trap
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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Action Crazy Faith Religious
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 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
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
Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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God Impossible Understand Way 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
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
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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Display God Heart Ourselves Side
We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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Creation Fake God

The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

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The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

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