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Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.
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And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to preserve our own interests at the expense of God's interests. It's devious, it's deceitful, it's self-indulgent. It's interested only in selfish comfort and will happily crucify Christ afresh to secure it. God also has another name for it- sin.
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God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.
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My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.
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The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.
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Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.
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When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.
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We are here on this earth to know God intimately, fully, correctly, and contagiously; to house His holy person in our very bodies, allowing Him to showcase to the world around us His loving nature, His attitude, His thoughts, His emotions, and His actions through the way we live every moment of our lives.
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Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!
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Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.
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I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.
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Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.
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Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.
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I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own...
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You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.
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For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.
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When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.
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I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.
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Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!