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 CHANJesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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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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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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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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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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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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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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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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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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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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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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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards.
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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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