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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.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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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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Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.
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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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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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Secular humanism debases the human.
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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 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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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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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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There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
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You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.
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Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you
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Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian
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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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God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.
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I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!
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Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
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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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