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The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts.

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You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.
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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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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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When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.
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Apart from worshiping God, everything becomes superficial. But when you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there's an eternal amount of joy at our disposal, because everything we do is enlightened and enlivened by the endless glory of the eternal God.
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I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
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The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.
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You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.
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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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More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of Tinker Bell and Aladdin’s Genie. But the God of the Bible, this God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is a pillar of fire and a column of smoke.
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I preach hard against that idea and plead with people to make war against sin. I tell them it's not going to be easy. Some people are meant to wrestle with their sin a long time before God brings them to freedom, but let's wrestle. Let's fight. Let's do something besides just complain.
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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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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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Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.
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In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn’t have or do in this life.
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Truly, God's plan of redemption is about more than me and you and our neighbor down the street. It's about men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth becoming a part of His covenant community.
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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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Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.
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We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.
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