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If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

Mark Driscoll

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Mark Driscoll
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 11
Pastor
Writer
Grand Forks
North Dakota
Heart
Rests
Sovereignty
Seeks
Flow
Control
Words
Come

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Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.
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My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by his gloriously masculine men who work their jobs, eat their meat, drink their beer, romance their wives, study their Bible, and raise their kids in glory and joy
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So let me tell you this, when it comes to...trying to introduce other people to Jesus. Don't get mad at them: it's not because they're stupid. It's because they're blind. Yelling louder, arguing harder, pushing firmer won't make someone who is blind see. Pray for them, speak to them, care for them.
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Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.
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Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.
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A lot of people are using the Church, but not a lot of people are loving the Church.
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There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy.
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Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.
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Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him.
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The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.
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Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.
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Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.
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...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.
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I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.
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I am not ashamed of the Gospel.
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Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.
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The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.
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God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.
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The goal of Christian dating is not to have a boyfriend or girlfriend but to find a spouse. Have that in mind as you get to know one an- other, and if you’re not ready to commit to a relationship with the end goal of marriage, it’s better not to date but simply to remain friends.
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Ultimately I think the difference between reading the Bible and studying it is making the connections between who Jesus is and what he's done.
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