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

Erwin W. Lutzer

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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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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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Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.
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Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.
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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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Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.
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God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.
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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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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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There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.
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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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God loves the world. Go thou and do likewise.
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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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God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.
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Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.
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If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.
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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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Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.
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Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.
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