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The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.
The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.
With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.
Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.
Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.
If satan can keep you in the sense realm, he will destroy you - but if you keep him in the faith realm, you'll put him under your feet.
There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.
When someone gets up and says that the Bible is not the word of God, I really don't care what their point is. That, to me, is apostasy.
It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.
Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.
I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED not taught.
The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.
I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.
You've got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what's in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are petty.
I believe Jesus Christ came for everybody. I don't think he came for Christians. The Bible says take this good news to the whole world.
A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.
In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!
Religious programs, activities have often blurred and sidelined the centrality of the cross - causing religion to be empty of its core.
The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.
When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.
We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.
David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals. (on David Johnson)
One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?
Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.
The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.
We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.
God doesn't intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.
Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem.
God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.
Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!
Jesus clearly taught that the majority of humanity will spend eternity in hell, and only a few will find the exclusive way to salvation.
I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.
Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place
Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.
If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.