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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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If we confuse the gospel with response to the gospel, we will drift from what keeps the gospel on the ground, what makes it clear and personal, and the next thing you know, we will be doing a bunch of different things that actually obscure the gospel, not reveal it.
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Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.
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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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Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.
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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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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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The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.
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The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.
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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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God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
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I'm accepted by God and it has nothing to do with me.
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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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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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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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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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