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Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness
Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.
But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.
We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.
Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.
Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world.
I don't think the problem that we have today is overzealous believers. I think the problem we have is underzealous believers.
It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.
Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds.
How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.
Real prosperity is … Having the financial abundance to obey God's will whenever He wants you to, and however he wants you to.
We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.
Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.
Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!
Jesus modeled a purpose-driven life, and he taught others how to live it, too. That was the "work" that brought glory to God.
I'm definitely not postmillennial. And I do not believe in bringing in the Kingdom by human means, in no sense of the matter.
We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.
Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'
God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.
Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.
My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.
Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.
Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.
If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.
Fulfilling our destiny and realizing our potential all begins in our mind. That's why the devil tries to bombard our thinking.
With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.
Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.
We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.
The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.
...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
The Christian way is a life of faith. In order to hold on to the promises of God, you've got to believe them and live by them.
We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.
When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.
I do believe that at times God opens some doors and closes others, but our mistake is to confuse an open door for an easy door
As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.
We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for
We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.
When we see one another in heaven, we will have beautiful bodies that will far surpass the beauty of our bodies on this earth.