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Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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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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We can never reflect too much on God's 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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God made everything else but man after its kind' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form.
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Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
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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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God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.
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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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Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.
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Secular humanism debases the human.
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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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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.
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We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.
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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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Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.
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When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.
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You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ
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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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Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least.
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