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And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.
We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.
The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.
Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.
SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.
You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.
He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.
Let us learn to dream again. To learn to dream again is to have big plans. To learn to dream again is to readjust, to look to God.
Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison.
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.
There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.
I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.
God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.
Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.
To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.
When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.
What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.
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.
You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.
Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.
The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.
CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.
Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.
If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.
Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!
There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.
Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.
Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.
My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.
The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.