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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: 47
Born: 1977
Born: January 1
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Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.
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Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.
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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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The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.
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Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.
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Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.
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Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.
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Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.
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You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.
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God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.
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The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.
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Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.
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You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.
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The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.
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We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.
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If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.
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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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Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.
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If there really is a perfect will of God we are meant to discover, in which we will find tremendous freedom and fulfillment, why does it seem that everyone looking for God's will is in such bondage and confusion?
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