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When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.

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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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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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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
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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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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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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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Contentment is an undervalued grace.
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Secular humanism debases the human.
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Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian
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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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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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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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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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The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.
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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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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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