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Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

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Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.
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Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God 'Light momentary affliction.'
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God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.
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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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When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.
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On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet.
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If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.
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What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.
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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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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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In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.
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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)
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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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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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Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.
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Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.
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God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.
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We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.
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This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness
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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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