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I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

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Josh McDowell
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 17
Apologist
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
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Union City
Michigan
Josh P. McDowell
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Alcoholics
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As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
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How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.
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After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
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The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
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Most Christians are not convinced of their own faith. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God. And so they cannot discern between the truth and falsehood.
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Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.
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While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
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For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
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Love can wait to give it is lust that can't wait to get.
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Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.’
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No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
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When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Dont go it alone - you wont make it.
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I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
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I thought Christians were walking idiots.
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The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted.
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