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Prayer turns theology into experience.

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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite.
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The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.
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Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
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To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.
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I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears
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We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry
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Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.
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A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.
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The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.
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One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I've read by a Christian that didn't treat me like I was an idiot.'
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When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.
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A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.
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