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We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.

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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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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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Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.
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When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.
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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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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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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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Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.
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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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Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.
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No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.
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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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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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There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
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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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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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Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.
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Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
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