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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.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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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 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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The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.
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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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Worship is not something we work up, it is something that comes down to us, from the character of 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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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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Secular humanism debases the human.
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The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.
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Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you
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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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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
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Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
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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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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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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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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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Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.
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It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.
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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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