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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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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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Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.
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The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional (I feel full of worship or The atmosphere is so worshipful). Actually, it is theological. Worship is not something we work up, it is something that comes down to us, from the character of God.
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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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Secular humanism debases the human.
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Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.
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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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Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.
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We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
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The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.
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God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.
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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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We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.
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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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Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
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God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.
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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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Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
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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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