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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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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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Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell it’s a place for those who love God.
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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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There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.
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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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Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.
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God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
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The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.
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God is awesome he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.
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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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I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.
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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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We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.
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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've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.
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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 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 commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.
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