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We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

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Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.
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God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.
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This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
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One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.
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The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.
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The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.
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Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.
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God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don’t come to Him.
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Caring for the poor is one natural overflow and a necessary evidence of the presence of Christ in our hearts. If there is no sign of caring for the poor in our lives, then there is reason to at least question whether Christ is in our hearts.
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If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.
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The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.
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Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
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The very first word out of Jesus mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.
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Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
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Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.
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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.
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Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.
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Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.
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The primary reward of the gospel - God himself
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Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.
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