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For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

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Kevin DeYoung
Age: 48
Born: 1977
Born: January 1
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Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.
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The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.
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God's timing is rarely our timing.
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Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.
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The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm
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The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.
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Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.
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The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.
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Keep sharing the good news we have not yet exhausted the number of God's elect.
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Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.
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Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.
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The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.
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God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.
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Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.
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I'm pretty sure most of us would be more fulfilled if we didn't fixate on fulfillment quite so much.
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No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.
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It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.
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There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.
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The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply
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