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The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!
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Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.
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We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth (Psm. 145:18). Worship that is not based on God's Word is but an emotional encounter with oneself.
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God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.
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Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man’s (or woman’s) thoughts and attitudes.
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The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
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Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.
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Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.
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Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.
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Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. We must come in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will.
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There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
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How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.
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There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
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There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.
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A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.
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Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.
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God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.
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I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can do that without becoming angry or hateful.
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Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
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