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God is more interested in declaring than explaining.

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He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.
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You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.
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When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’
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I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.
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Grace does not make sin safe. But grace does make sinners safe.
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Our goal is transformed hearts that lead to transformed lives. Transformed lives do not lead to transformed hearts. Are you trackin' with that?
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There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.
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Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.
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What drives me mad in evangelical circles, including some young Reformed circles, is that there is often a sit-on-the-couch-and-wait-for-God-to-do-something mentality that is unbiblical and wicked. It's probably been true of every generation, but I can see it most clearly in the younger crowd. There seems to be so little war when it comes to sin.
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Worship is the way of life for those entranced by and passionate for the glory of God.
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God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
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So relational evangelism? Go for it, as long as it turns into real evangelism. You hanging out having a beer with your buddy so he can see that Christians are cool is not what we’re called to do. You’re eventually going to have to open up your mouth and share the gospel. When the pure gospel is shared, people respond.
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The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts.
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There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue. There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.
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Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation
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This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.
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While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.
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The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.
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Jesus doesn't need you to make him palatable...he needs you to be faithful.
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