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It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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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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God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual fix for the day.
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The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.
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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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Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
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The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.
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How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.
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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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Contentment is an undervalued grace.
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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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No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.
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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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We can never reflect too much on God's grace.
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The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.
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You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.
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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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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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When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.
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