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In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

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Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.
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The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.
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Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?
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