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The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.
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Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
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Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.
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When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.
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When I look at the cross, I learn to say: 'The Son of God loved me, and gave Himself for me' (Galatians 2:20). I begin to believe with Paul that if God did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up to the cross for me, then He loves me so much He will always give me only what will bring me blessing (Romans 8:32).
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The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
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Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.
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When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.
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True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.
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The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.
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Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
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Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.
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The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.
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Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ' no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.
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The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.
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Contentment is an undervalued grace.
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Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you
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God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.
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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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