The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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