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It Horribly Skews The Meaning Of The Cross When Contemporary Prophets Of Self-esteem Say That The Cross Is A Witness To My Infinite Worth. The Biblical Perspective Is That The Cross In A Witness To The Infinite Worth Of God's Glory, And A Witness To The Immensity Of The Sin Of My Pride.

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It Horribly Skews The

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It Horribly Skews The Meaning Of The Cross When Contemporary Prophets Of Self-esteem Say That The Cross Is A Witness To My Infinite Worth. The Biblical Perspective Is That The Cross In A Witness To The Infinite Worth Of God's Glory, And A Witness To The Immensity Of The Sin Of My Pride.

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If God Were Not Just, There Would Be No Demand For His Son To Suffer And Die. And If God Were Not Loving, There Would Be No Willingness For His Son To Suffer And Die. But God Is Both Just And Loving. Therefore His Love Is Willing To Meet The Demands Of His Justice.

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One Of The Great Enemies Of Hope Is Forgetting God's Promises.

This Is The Centre Of The Gospel - This Is What The Garden Of Gethsemane And Good Friday Are All About - That God Has Done Astonishing And Costly Things To Draw Us Near.

We Will Not Let You Choose Between Being A Lover Of God And His Sovereignty And Being A Lover Of Lost People.

Being Infinite, God Is Inexhaustibly Interesting. It Is Therefore Impossible That God Be Boring.

God's Greatest Interest Is To Glorify The Wealth Of His Grace By Making Sinners Happy In Him.

Whether Sexual Orientation Can Change Or Not, Hearts Can Change And Turn Any Sexual Orientation Into An Occasion For The Glory Of Christ. Those With Same-sex Attraction Glorify Christ Through Sexual Abstinence And Through The Enrichment Of Significant Christ-exalting Relationships In Other Ways.

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It Is Not Saving Faith To Confess Christ As True. Saving Faith Receives Christ As A Treasure.

If The Pursuit Of God's Glory Is Not Ordered Above The Pursuit Of Man's Good In The Affections Of The Heart And The Priorities Of The Church, Man Will Not Be Well Served, And God Will Not Be Duly Honored. I Am Not Pleading For A Diminishing Of Missions But For A Magnifying Of God. When The Flame Of Worship Burns With The Heat Of God's True Worth, The Light Of Missions Will Shine To The Darkest Peoples On Earth. And I Long For That Day To Come!

God Is Not An Employer Looking For Employees. He Is An Eagle Looking For People Who Will Take Refuge Under His Wings. He Is Looking For People Who Will Leave Father And Mother And Homeland Or Anything Else That May Hold Them Back From A Life Of Love Under The Wings Of Jesus.

I Have Tried To Devote My Life - With All My Husband Failures, Father Failures, Pastor Failures, Friend Failures, Any Other Possible Failures I'm Sure I've Done Them - To The God-centeredness Of God And My Aspiring, Yearning To Join Him In That Activity. God Is Passionate About Hallowing The Name Of God.

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In Our Proud Love Affair With Ourselves We Pour Contempt, Whether We Know It Or Not, On The Worth Of God's Glory. As Our Pride Pours Contempt Upon God's Glory, His Righteousness Obliges Him To Pour Wrath Upon Our Pride.

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Worship Is Ultimate, Not Missions. Because God Is Ultimate, Not Man.

The Call Of God Creates Sight In Us. It's The Work Of God In Our Hearts To Awaken Us Before His Word.

All Of History Is Moving Toward One Great Goal, The White-hot Worship Of God And His Son Among All The Peoples Of The Earth. Missions Is Not That Goal. It Is The Means. And For That Reason It Is The Second Greatest Human Activity In The World.

The Lord Is Kind. He Is Good To All Who Take Refuge Under His Wings.

The Key That Unlocks The Treasure Chest Of God's Peace Is Faith In The Promises Of God.

There Are Only Three Kinds Of Christians When It Comes To World Missions: Zealous Goers, Zealous Senders, And Disobedient.

When The Heart No Longer Feels The Truth Of Hell, The Gospel Passes From Good News To Simply News

You Can't Make Yourself Saved. This Is Very Threatening To People, Even Christians, Because Of What It Seems To Say About Freedom.

Not Going To God Because Your Faith Is Weak Is Like Not Going To The Doctor Because You Feel Sick.

Little Hearts, Little Souls Give Little Lusts Big Power. Big Hearts Give Little Lusts Little Power.

The Wonder Of Marriage Is Woven Into The Wonder Of The Gospel Of The Cross Of Christ, And The Message Of The Cross Is Foolishness To The Natural Man, And So The Meaning Of Marriage Is Foolishness To The Natural Man.

Christian Living Moves From What God Has Freely Done For Us In Christ To What We Should Freely Do For Others.

The Whole World Lives For Pleasure. The Only Difference Is Theirs Is Fleeting, While Ours Is Forever In Jesus.

Do You Feel Loved By God Because You Believe He Makes Much Of You, Or Because You Believe He Frees You And Empowers You To Enjoy Making Much Of Him?

I Know Of No Other Way To Triumph Over Sin Long-term Than To Gain A Distaste For It Because Of A Superior Satisfaction In God.

Where Passion For God Is Weak, Zeal For Missions Will Be Weak.

God In Eternity Looked Upon Me Forseeing My Faultness, My Pride, My Sin And Said 'i Want That Man In My Family, I Will Pay For Him To Be In My Family With My Son's Life. That's Love Folks. That Is Mega Off The Charts Love!!!

The Formation Of The Life Of A Person In The Womb Is The Work Of God, And It Is Not Merely A Mechanical Process But A Work On The Analogy Of Weaving Or Knitting: "thou Didst Knit Me Together In My Mother's Womb" (psalm 139:13). The Life Of The Unborn Is The Knitting Of God, And What He Is Knitting Is A Human Being In His Own Image, Unlike Any Other Creature In The Universe... The Destruction Of Conceived Human Life - Whether Embryonic, Fetal, Or Viable - Is An Assault On The Unique Person-forming Work Of God.

We Are Not As Christ-centered And Cross-cherishing As We Should Be, Because We Do Not Ponder The Truth That Everything Good, And Everything Bad That God Turns For The Good, Was Purchased By The Sufferings Of Christ.

God Doesn’t Waste Anything For Those Who Are Yielded To Him.

When I Believe In Jesus, I Am United To Christ. Therefore, What He Did And Achieved Becomes Mine By This Union Through Faith Alone. His Righteous Life Is Imputed To Me. What Christ Achieved Is Counted As Mine.

Headship Is The Divine Calling Of A Husband To Take Primary Responsibility For Christlike, Servant Leadership, Protection, And Provision In The Home.

You Never Outgrow Your Need To Preach To Yourself The Gospel.

I Do Not Appeal To You To Screw Up Your Courage And Sacrifice For Christ. I Appeal To You To Renounce All You Have To Obtain Life That Satisfies Your Deepest Longings.

The Dismembering Of A Human Being Routinely In 30 Minutes On An Outpatient Bases - Or Any Other Way - Is Barbaric. Four Blocks From Our Church All Year Long - Like Churches Within Smelling Distance Of Auschwitz Or Dachau Or Buchenwald.

If You Don't Feel Strong Desires For The Manifestation Of The Glory Of God, It Is Not Because You Have Drunk Deeply And Are Satisfied. It Is Because You Have Nibbled So Long At The Table Of The World. Your Soul Is Stuffed With Small Things, And There Is No Room For The Great.

No One Will Be Able To Rise To The Magnificence Of The Missionary Cause Who Does Not Feel The Magnificence Of Christ.

The Thought Of Building A Life Around Minimal Morality Or Minimal Significance—a Life Defined By The Question, “what Is Permissible?”—felt Almost Disgusting To Me. I Didn’t Want A Minimal Life. I Didn’t Want To Live On The Outskirts Of Reality. I Wanted To Understand The Main Thing About Life And Pursue It.

One Of The Great Uses Of Twitter And Facebook Will Be To Prove At The Last Day That Prayerlessness Was Not From Lack Of Time.

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I Sometimes Fear That We Have So Redefined Conversion In Terms Of Human Decisions And Have So Removed Any Necessity Of The Experience Of God’s Spirit, That Many People Think They Are Saved When In Fact They Only Have Christian Ideas In Their Head Not Spiritual Power In Their Heart.

Wimpy Worldviews Make Wimpy Christians. And Wimpy Christians Won’t Survive The Days Ahead.

Don't Wait For A Feeling Or Love In Order To Share Christ With A Stranger. You Already Love Your Heavenly Father, And You Know That This Stranger Is Created By Him, But Separated From Him... So Take Those First Steps In Evangelism Because You Love God. It Is Not Primarily Out Of Compassion For Humanity That We Share Our Faith Or Pray For The Lost; It Is First Of All, Love For God.

Every Criticism Or Slight Against You, Warranted Or Not, Received Or Endured Humbly, Is Written In Heaven For Your Reward.

Ways To Be Actively Involved In The Solution: 1. Consider Adoption. 2. Be A Regular Giver Of Your Money To Crisis Pregnancy Centers. 3. Volunteer In A Crisis Pregnancy Center. 4. Be Involved In Spreading Truth With Good Literature. 5. Make Your Presence Know At The Abortion Clinics In Town (by) Writing Or Phoning Or Visiting And Talking, If You Can, With Those Who Work There. 6. Dream A New Kind Of Ministry. 7. Pray!

Prayer Causes Things To Happen That Wouldn't Happen If You Didn't Pray.

The Goal Of Missions Is The Gladness Of The Peoples In The Greatness Of God.

People Are Not Prepared Or Able To Rejoice In Suffering Unless They Experience A Massive Biblical Revolution Of How They Think And Feel About The Meaning Of Life. Human Nature And American Culture Make It Impossible To Rejoice In Suffering. This Is A Miracle In The Human Soul Wrought By God Through His Word.

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