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In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.'
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Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.
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God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.
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While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.
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We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.
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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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Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.
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There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
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Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
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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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By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.
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God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.
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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.
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We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
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Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.
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We have an incomprehensibly great God!
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What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.
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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.
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It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.
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In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.
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