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Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.

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Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation
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The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts.
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God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.
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What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'
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Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
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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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The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.
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If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.
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The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
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Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.
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Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.
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The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.
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We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.
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Many of the things that stifle growth are morally neutral. They're not bad things. Facebook is not bad. Television and movies are not bad. I enjoy TV, but it doesn't take long for me to begin to find humorous on TV what the Lord finds heartbreaking.
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