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

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Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.
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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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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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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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Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.
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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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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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Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian
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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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God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual fix for the day.
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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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Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.
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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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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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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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The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.
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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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Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
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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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