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God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.
What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.
For every way someone can be lost, we want to provide a practical way for them to be found in the very place they have ended up.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.
Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.
The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.
Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.
At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.
The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.
There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.
The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.
God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.
Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.
Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable.
The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.
People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.
Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!
You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"
What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.
Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.
Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.
Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.
In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.
"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.
You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.
The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.
There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.
We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.
In some seasons, Jesus asks us, “Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?
Believers have a genuine, unfailing hope of a future reunion with loved ones. We can find joy in anticipating our future reunion.
As a Christian, you can enjoy life because your conscience is clear. You can enjoy life because you are secure within God's love.
Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?
If you are in a hurry to get money, you will be in a hurry to spend it. Anything that starts dubiously will surely end dubiously.
Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.
If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.
I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.
I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.
When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.
One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.
Sometimes it is the destinations out of reach that create the circumstances God uses to remind that we are never out of his reach.
Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.