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One Accurate Way To Describe Abortion Is Subtle Infanticide. That Is: Child-killing Done In A Way That The People Don't Recognize It As Child-killing. That Reality Is Why The Word Abortion Exists. Some Words Are Created To Cloak Reality The Same Way Procedures Are Created To Cloak Reality. "abortion" Is Cloaked Child-killing

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One Accurate Way To Describe Abortion Is Subtle Infanticide. That Is: Child-killing Done In A Way That The People Don't Recognize It As Child-killing. That Reality Is Why The Word Abortion Exists. Some Words Are Created To Cloak Reality The Same Way Procedures Are Created To Cloak Reality. "abortion" Is Cloaked Child-killing

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The Right Creative Act Makes Its Own Laws, And Always Will Do.

God Without Christ Is No God.

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There Is A Great Gulf Between The Christianity That Wrestles With Whether To Worship At The Cost Of Imprisonment And Death, And The Christianity That Wrestles With Whether The Kids Should Play Soccer On Sunday Morning.

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Spot The First Risings Of Your Besetting Sin And Kill It, Till It Is No More.

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.

The Way Of The Cross Is The Way Of Suffering. Christians Are Called To Die, Not Kill, In Order To Show The World How They Are Loved By Christ.

Bad Theology Dishonors God And Hurts People.

Do We Eagerly Long For The Coming Of Christ? Or Do We Want Him To Wait While Our Love Affair With The World Runs Its Course? That Is The Question That Tests The Authenticity Of Faith.

Without Extended, Concentrated Prayer, The Ministry Of The Word Withers. And When The Ministry Of The Word Declines, Faith (rom. 10:17; Gal. 3:2, 5) And Holiness (john 17:17) Decline. Activity May Continue, But Life And Power And Fruitfulness Fade Away. Therefore, Whatever Opposes Prayer Opposes The Whole Work Of Ministry.

Bitterness About Your Parents’ Brokenness Will Kill You. Be The Grace-filled End Of Generational Sin In Your Family.

According To The Spirit Of This Age, The Ultimate Sin Is No Longer The Failure To Honor And Thank God But The Failure To Esteem Oneself. Self-abasement, Not God-abasement, Is The Evil. And The Cry Of Deliverance Is Not "o Wretched Man That I Am, Who Will Deliver Me?" But "o Worthy Man That I Am, Would That I Could Only See It Better"!

Worship Is An Inward Feeling And Outward Action That Reflects The Worth Of God.

Jerusalem Meant One Thing For Jesus: Certain Death.

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?

If You Remove Enjoyment Of God From Faith In God, It Ceases To Be Faith.

Every Christian Who Struggles With Depression Struggles To Keep Their Hope Clear. There Is Nothing Wrong With The Object Of Their Hope - Jesus Christ Is Not Defective In Any Way Whatsoever. But The View From The Struggling Christian's Heart Of Their Objective Hope Could Be Obscured By Disease And Pain, The Pressures Of Life, And By Satanic Fiery Darts Shot Against Them... All Discouragement And Depression Is Related To The Obscuring Of Our Hope, And We Need To Get Those Clouds Out Of The Way And Fight Like Crazy To See Clearly How Precious Christ Is.

Prosperity Cannot Be A Proof Of God's Favor, Since It Is What The Devil Promises To Those Who Worship Him. (matt. 4:9)

Out Of The Freedom From Worry That God's Generosity Provides Comes An Impulse Toward Simplicity Rather Than Accumulation.

The Cost Of Food In The Kingdom Is Hunger For The Bread Of Life.

I Measure Your Love For Me By The Magnitude Of The Wrath I Deserved, And The Wonder Of Your Mercy By Putting Christ In My Place.

We Embrace The Hand We've Been Dealt, Because We Know The Dealer, And He Never Deals Badly.

The Strength Of Patience Hangs On Our Capacity To Believe That God Is Up To Something Good For Us In All Our Delays And Detours.

All The Different Ways God Has Chosen To Display His Glory In Creation And Redemption Seem To Reach Their Culmination In The Praises Of His Redeemed People. God Governs The World With Glory Precisely That He Might Be Admired, Marvelled At, Exalted And Praised. The Climax Of His Happiness Is The Delight He Takes In The Echoes Of His Excellence In The Praises Of The Saints.

God Created Us For This: To Live Our Lives In A Way That Makes Him Look More Like The Greatness And The Beauty And The Infinite Worth That He Really Is. This Is What It Means To Be Created In The Image Of God.

The Engagement Of The Heart In Worship Is The Coming Alive Of The Feelings And Emotions And Affections Of The Heart. Where Feelings For God Are Dead, Worship Is Dead.

My Joy Grows With Every Soul That Seeks The Glory Of God In The Face Of Jesus Christ. Remember, You Have One Life. That’s All. You Were Made For God. Don’t Waste It.

America Is The First Culture In Jeopardy Of Amusing Itself To Death.

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Giving Is A Way Of Having What You Need.

There Are A Thousand Needs In The World, And None Of Them Compares To The Global Need For The Gospel.

Wise People Know That All Their Money Belongs To God.

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Don't Coast Through Life Without A Passion.

Do Not Be More Devoted To Your Own Brain Than You Are To The Bible.

John's Baptism...was A Radical Act Of Individual Commitment To Belong To The True People Of God, Based On Personal Confession And Repentance... This Is One Of The Main Reasons That I Do Not Believe In Baptizing Infants, Who Cannot Make This Personal Commitment Or Confession Or Repentance. John's Baptism Was An Assault On The Very Assumptions That Give Rise To Much Infant Baptism.

Blind People Don't Decide To See. Jesus Says, 'see!' And They See.

Oh, How Rare Are The Christians Who Speak With A Tender Heart And Have A Theological Backbone Of Steel.

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.

To Love God Does Not Mean To Meet His Needs, But Rather To Delight In Him And To Be Captivated By His Glorious Power And Grace, And To Value Him Above All Other Things On Earth. All The Rest Of The Commandments Are The Kinds Of Things That We Will Do From Our Hearts, If Our Hearts Are Truly Delighted With And Resting In The Glory Of God's Grace.

The Assurance Of The Believer Is Not That God Will Save Him Even If He Stops Believing, But That God Will Keep Him Believing--god Will Sustain You In Faith, He Will Make Your Hope Firm And Stable To The End. He Will Cause You To Persevere.

Neither Muslims Nor Anyone Else Truly Worships The True God If They Reject Jesus As He Really Is In The Gospels.

In Demanding Our Praise God Is Demanding The Completion Of Our Pleasure (in Him).

If You Live Gladly To Make Others Glad In God, Your Life Will Be Hard, Your Risks Will Be High, And Your Joy Will Be Full.

If You Want To Be A Conduit For God's Grace, You Don't Have To Be Lined With Gold. Copper Will Do.

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!

All Heroes Are Shadows Of Christ

Oh That God Would Help Me Waken In You A Single Passion For A Single Great Reality That Would Unleash You, And Set You Free From Small Dreams, And Send You, For The Glory Of Christ, Into All The Spheres Of Secular Life And To All The Peoples Of The Earth.

Suffering For Jesus Is Temporary. Pleasure In Jesus Is Eternal.

A Saving Knowledge Of Christ Crucified And Risen Is Not The Mere Result Of Right Reasoning About Historical Facts. It Is The Result Of Spiritual Illumination To See Those Facts For What They Really Are: A Revelation Of The Truth And Glory Of God In The Face Of Christ-who Is The Same Yesterday Today And Forever.

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.

The Importance Of Prayer Rises In Proportion To The Importance Of The Things We Should Give Up In Order To Pray

God Has Ordained That Our Preaching Become Deeper And More Winsome As We Are Broken, Humbled, And Made Low And Desperately Dependent On Grace By The Trials Of Our Lives.

But Whatever You Do, Find The God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated Passion Of Your Life, And Find Your Way To Say It And Live For It And Die For It. And You Will Make A Difference That Lasts. You Will Not Waste Your Life.

The Deepest Need That You And I Have In Weakness And Adversity Is Not Quick Relief, But The Well-grounded Confidence That What Is Happening To Us Is Part Of The Greatest Purpose Of God In The Universe - The Glorification Of The Grace And Power Of His Son - The Grace And Power That Bore Him To The Cross And Kept Him There Until The Work Of Love Was Done.

A Christian Is Not A Person Who Believes In His Head The Teachings Of The Bible. Satan Believes In His Head The Teachings Of The Bible! A Christian Is A Person Who Has Died With Christ, Whose Stiff Neck Has Been Broken, Whose Brazen Forehead Has Been Shattered, Whose Stony Heart Has Been Crushed, Whose Pride Has Been Slain, And Whose Life Is Now Mastered By Jesus Christ.

We Can Be Content With Simplicity Because The Deepest Most Satisfying Delights God Gives Us Through Creation Are Free Gifts From Nature And From Loving Relationships With People. After Your Basic Needs Are Met, Accumulated Money Begins To Diminish Your Capacity For These Pleasures Rather Than Increase Them. Buying Things Contributes Absolutely Nothing To The Heart's Capacity For Joy.

You Don’t Have To Know A Lot Of Things For Your Life To Make A Lasting Difference In The World. But You Do Have To Know The Few Great Things That Matter, Perhaps Just One, And Then Be Willing To Live For Them And Die For Them. The People That Make A Durable Difference In The World Are Not The People Who Have Mastered Many Things, But Who Have Been Mastered By One Great Thing.

The Call Of God Does What The Call Of Man Cannot. It Raises The Dead.

It Is Evil To Justify Killing (unborn Babies) By The Happy Outcome Of Eternity For The One Killed. This Same Justification Could Be Used To Justify Killing One-year Olds, Or Any Heaven-bound Believer For That Matter. The Bible Asks The Question: "shall We Sin That Grace May Abound?" (romans 6:1) And: "shall We Do Evil That Good May Come?" (romans 3:8). In Both Cases The Answer Is A Resounding No. It Is Presumption To Step Into God's Place And Try To Make The Assignments To Heaven Or To Hell. Our Duty Is To Obey God, Not To Play God.

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