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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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Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.
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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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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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To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.
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God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.
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Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
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There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
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When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.
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Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
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Contentment is an undervalued grace.
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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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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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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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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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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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Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.
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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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Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.
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