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There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.
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Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.
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When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.
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Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.
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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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Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.
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Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.
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There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.
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Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?
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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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If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
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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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Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.
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God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
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A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.
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Milk many cows but make your own butter.
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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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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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