When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Anand Thakur
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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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 is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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