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Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.
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The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
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The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.
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God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.
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Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
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As we begin to focus more on Christ, loving Him and others becomes more natural. As long as we pursuing Him, we satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment
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Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.
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It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!
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...our concern is more about going to heaven than loving the King.
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Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?
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People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.
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Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'
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Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
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Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.
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If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?
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The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
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I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
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Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.
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Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin. They don't genuinely hate sin and aren't truly sorry for it; they're merely sorry because God is going to punish them. Lukewarm people don't really believe that this new life Jesus offers is better than the old sinful one.
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Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.
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The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
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If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.
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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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