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God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.

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Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.
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The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.
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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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Preach the Gospel with your life.
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A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace, receiving from The Lord and the body of Christ, and then gratefully receiving what she needs as she offers her praise- the only proper response to the God who saves us.
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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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All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.
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My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.
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Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn’t need a makeover.
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Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.
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We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity
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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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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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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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Where your delight is, the rest of your world is going to follow.
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Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.
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