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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.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.
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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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Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you
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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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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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My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.
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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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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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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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Contentment is an undervalued 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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Worship is not something we work up, it is something that comes down to us, from the character of God.
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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 foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.
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Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.
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The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
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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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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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