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God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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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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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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If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.
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Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
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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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The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.
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Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.
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Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you
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Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.
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Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least.
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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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My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.
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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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