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Faith only grows through suffering.

Mark Driscoll

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Mark Driscoll
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 11
Pastor
Writer
Grand Forks
North Dakota
Suffering
Faith
Grows
Religious

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So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I would just start my own. Second, God had spoken to me in one of those weird charismatic moments and told me to start a church. Third, I am scared of God and try to do what he says.
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A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either.
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We're not to follow our hearts, we're to guard our hearts.
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Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.
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Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.
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I'll preach anywhere. If it's a round trip ticket to preach in hell, I'll take it-as long as it's round trip.
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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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Who you think you are is what compels you to do what you do!
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You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus.
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